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oscito

oscito · v. n

to open the mouth wide

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. oscĭto — Lewis & Short

oscĭto, āre, v. n., and oscĭtor, āri, v. dep. (

I inf. oscitarier, Turp. ap. Non. 322, 18; or Com. Rel. v. 15 Rib.) [oscieo], to open the mouth wide, to gape.

I Of plants, to open, unclose: oscitat in campis caput a cervice revulsum, of the plant lion's-mouth, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 10, 396; cf. Col. 10, 260; and: (arborum) folia cotidie ad solem oscitant, turn towards the sun, Plin. 16, 24, 36, § 88.—

II Of living beings, to gape, yawn: ut pandiculans oscitatur, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 80; * Lucr. 3, 1065: clare ac sonore oscitavit, Gell. 4, 20, 8.— With acc.: quid adhuc oscitamus crapulam hesternam, August. Ver. Rel. 3.—

B Trop., to be listless, drowsy, inactive (cf.: dormio. sterto): cum majores (calamitates) impendere videantur, sedetis et oscitamini, i. e. are listless, idle, negligent, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48; cf. the foll.—Hence, oscĭtans, antis, P. a., listless, sluggish, lazy, negligent (class.): interea oscitantes opprimi, Ter. And. 1, 2, 10: quae Epicurus oscitans allucinatus est, qs. half asleep, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 72.—Of abstract things: oscitans et dormitans sapientia, Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144.—* Adv.: oscĭtanter, carelessly, negligently: quod ille tam solute egisset, tam leniter, tam oscitanter, Cic. Brut. 80, 277.

2. Oscitó — Walde–Hofmann

Oscitó (-or) -avi, -äre „gähne“ (seit Enn., rom.; óscitatió f. seit Paul. Fest bzw. Cels); ^ wohl ós citó „bewege den Mund“ (Forcellini, Georges, Leumann-Stolz5 198); jtdenfalls zeigt die roman. Vermischung mit suscitö, daß das Sprachgefühl in späterer Zeit citüre darin suchte. Kaum nach Vanicek 33, Ernout-Meillet? 715 (s. oscedö) Ableitung von einem *öscys ,gühnend" (ös + Suff. ko-). — Vgl. óscado. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Oscitó, p. 1133]

In the wild

oscitantis Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 56
oscitantur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.11
oscitat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.1065
oscitantes Catullus, Carmina lyrics.25.5
oscitantem Cicero, De Oratore 2.144
oscitans Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.72

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Oscitó (scan p. 1133; entry #1914).

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