The corpus record — Latin

peraro

peraro · v. a

to plough through; to traverse

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Where it lives

Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

pĕr-ăro — Lewis & Short

pĕr-ăro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

I Lit., to plough through; to traverse the sea: pontum, Sen. Med. 650.—

II Transf.

A To furrow: rugis anilibus ora, Ov. M. 14, 96; Sid. Ep. 3, 13.—

B To furrow or scratch over, to injure: cerebrum crebra vibice peraratum, Sid. Ep. 3, 13.—

C To scratch letters with the style on a waxen tablet, to write: talia perarans manus, Ov. M. 9, 563: litteram, id. A. A. 1, 455; cf. id. Tr. 3, 7, 1: peraratae tabellae, id. Am. 1, 11, 7: perarare carmina auro, Stat. S. 4, 5, 24.

Where it came from

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