The corpus record — Latin

occisio

occisio · f

a massacre

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Where it lives

De Scorpiace 5 · 6.28/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 6 · 2.65/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4 · 0.57/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

occīsĭo — Lewis & Short

occīsĭo, ōnis, f.1. occīdo,

I a massacre, slaughter, murder (class. but rare, except in eccl. Lat.; sometimes interchanged in the MSS. with occidio): si caedes et occisio facta non erit, Cic. Caecin. 14, 41: parentis, id. Inv. 1, 26, 37; App. M. 6, p. 184; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 14: aestimati sumus sicut oves occisionis, Vulg. Psa. 43, 21: gladium ad occisionem, id. Jer. 15, 3.

In the wild

occisione Tertullian, De Scorpiace 5
occisio Cicero, De Inventione 2.14
occisio Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 35
occisionem Tertullian, De Scorpiace 9
occisionem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.28
occisione Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 35

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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