The corpus record — Latin

palpito

to move frequently and quickly

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

palpĭto — Lewis & Short

palpĭto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. freq. n. [palpo], to move frequently and quickly, to tremble, throb, pant, palpitate.

I Lit.: cor palpitat, * Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24: radix micat ultima linguae, Utque salire solet mutilatae cauda colubrae, Palpitat, Ov. M. 6, 559: cerebrum uni homini in infantiā palpitat, Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 134: in ovo gutta sanguinis salit palpitatque, id. 10, 53, 74, § 148; 11, 37, 65, § 173.—Esp. of persons or animals in the agony of death, to struggle, be convulsed: palpitat et positas aspergit sanguine mensas, Ov. M. 5, 40: semianimes palpitantesque, Suet. Tib. 61: jam palpitat arvis Phaedimus, Stat. Th. 8, 439; 9, 756; Calp. Ecl. 2, 62.—In mal. part., Juv. 3, 134.—Of things: hic arduus ignis Palpitat, flickers, Stat. Th. 12, 70.—

II Trop.: animum palpitantem percussit, Petr. 100.

In the wild

palpitat Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.507
palpitaret Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.24
palpitat Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
palpitantem Petronius, Satyricon 100
palpitat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p9
palpitantes Tertullian, De Spectaculis 30.1

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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