The corpus record — Latin

palpitatio

palpitatio · f

a frequent and rapid motion

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

palpĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

palpĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.palpito,

I a frequent and rapid motion, a palpitation: cordis, a palpitation of the heart, Plin. 32, 5, 18, § 49: oculorum, a blinking, id. 32, 10, 46, § 132: partium singularum, id. 11, 4, 3, § 10.

In the wild

palpitatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.4
palpitationem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.5.p3
palpitatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.59
palpitatio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.16
palpitatione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p9

Where it came from

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