The corpus record — Latin

obtrunco

obtrunco · v. a

to cut off

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 2 · 12.58/10k
Amphitruo 3 · 3.05/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 4 · 2.38/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 3 · 2.07/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 2 · 1.51/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Jugurtha 3 · 1.41/10k
Punica 9 · 1.18/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Historiae 5 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-trunco — Lewis & Short

ob-trunco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to cut off, lop away; to trim, prune.

I Lit. (post-Aug. and very rare): vitem, Col. 4, 29, 13.—

II In gen., to cut down, cut to pieces, kill, slay, slaughter (not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: trucido, jugulo, occido): ipsus Amphitruo optruncavit regem Pterelam in proelio, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 259: (Medea) puerum interea obtruncat, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 67: ceteri vice pecorum obtruncabantur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 497, 27: caedere alios, alios obtruncare, id. J. 97, 5: regem, Liv. 1, 5: (hostes), Sall. J. 67, 2: cervos ferro, Verg. G. 3, 374: gallum, Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 10; Liv. 7, 26, 5; 8, 24, 9; 10, 38, 11; Curt. 6, 1, 1; Just. 16, 5, 15; Tac. H. 1, 80; 3, 12.

In the wild

obtruncat Silius Italicus, Punica 10.159
obtruncat Vergil, Aeneid 2.663
obtruncat Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.25
obtruncatis Tacitus, Historiae 3.12
obtruncatum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.9.9
obtruncat Silius Italicus, Punica 5.580

6 of 98 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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