The corpus record — Latin

pauso

pauso · v. n

to halt

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Where it lives

Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

pauso — Lewis & Short

pauso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.pausa.

I Lit., to halt, cease, pause (ante- and postclass. for quiesco, interquiesco): cum capitis pausaverit dolor, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 1, 16: pausante vomitu, id. Acut. 3, 21, 212: pausa et quiesce, populus meus, Vulg. 4 Esdr. 2, 24 (for Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 150, v. pausa).—

II Pregn., to rest in the grave, = requiescere (late Lat.): PAVSAT IN PACE, Inscr. Boldetti Cimeter. p. 399; Inscr. Maff. Gall. Antiqu. p. 55.—Hence, pausātus, a, um, P. a., that has halted or paused; at rest, resting (post-class.): jumentum, Veg. Vet. 1, 38: et sauciat pectus pausatae circa arboris robur (i. e. quiescentis in antro), Arn. 5, 160 dub. (al. pausate).

In the wild

pausa Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1116
pausa Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.13.9
pausa Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.5.4
pausa Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.16
pausa Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.930
pausas Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 6

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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