The corpus record — Latin

olfacto

olfacto · v. freq. a

to smell at

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Where it lives

Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

olfacto — Lewis & Short

olfacto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.olfacio,

I to smell at any thing (ante-class. and post-Aug.).

I Lit.: vestimentum, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 56: membrana olfactata, Plin. 28, 16, 63, § 225 (al. olefacta): pulei ramum, id. 20, 14, 54, § 155.—

II Trop., to smell, snuff, detect, perceive: boves caelum olfactantes, Plin. 18, 35, 88, § 364.

In the wild

olfactandum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.14.p3
olfactandum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.18.p2
olfactaque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.8.p8
olfactantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.35.p12
olfactantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.17.p8
Olfacta Plautus, Menaechmi 1.2

Where it came from

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