The corpus record — Latin

paulatim

paulatim · adv

by little and little

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Opilius Macrinus 2 · 8.03/10k
De Providentia 3 · 7.33/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 3 · 5.38/10k
De Medicina 48 · 4.68/10k
De Rerum Natura 22 · 4.51/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 3 · 4.45/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Jugurtha 9 · 4.24/10k
De agri cultura 6 · 3.84/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 4 · 3.84/10k
Catilina 4 · 3.75/10k

Densest 12 of 98 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paulātim — Lewis & Short

paulātim (paull-), adv.paulum,

I by little and little, by degrees, gradually (syn. sensim).

I Lit.: labefacto paulatim, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68: paulatim Germanos consuescere Rhenum transire, Caes. B. G. 1, 33: collis leviter fastigatus paulatim ad planitiem redibat, id. ib. 2, 8; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 17, 1: ubi paulatim licentia crevit, Sall. C. 51, 30; Verg. E. 4, 28: paulatim adnabam terrae, id. A. 6, 358: calere, Juv. 1, 83: aliquem accipere, id. 2, 84: vitia exuere, id. 13, 188.—

II In partic., of the succession of parts one after the other, a few or a little at a time: paulatim ex castris discedere coeperunt, non omnes simul, sed subinde pauci, Caes. B. G. 4, 30; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 45; Dig. 49, 14, 47.—With gen.: aquae paulatim addito, add water a little at a time, Cato, R. R. 74.

In the wild

paulatim Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 48
paulatim Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.19
paulatim Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.19.2
paulatim Vergil, Aeneid 8.326
paulatim Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.693
paulatim Celsus, De Medicina 3.11

6 of 517 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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