The corpus record — Latin

opaco

opaco · v. a

to cover with shade

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ŏpāco — Lewis & Short

ŏpāco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to cover with shade, to shade (class.; syn.: obscuro, obumbro).

I Lit.; platanus ad opacandum hunc locum patulis est diffusa ramis, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28, cf. id. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4: ubi pinguem dives opacat Ramus humum, Verg. A. 6, 195: humum taxus opacat, Luc. 6, 645: (sol terras) modo his modo illis ex partibus opacat, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49.—

B Transf., to cover (poet.): opacat flore lanugo genas, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. genas, p. 94 Müll.: opacat tempora pinus, Sil. 13, 331.—*

II Trop., to darken, obscure, Aug. Mor. Eccl. Cath. 1, 2.

In the wild

opacat Statius, Achilleis 1.679
opacat Lucan, Pharsalia 6.645
opacat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.12.p2
opacant Vergil, Georgicon 2.55
opacasset Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.95
opacat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.1.p1

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Where it came from

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