The corpus record — Latin

percido

to beat

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Where it lives

Persa 1 · 1.27/10k

What it meant

per-cīdo — Lewis & Short

per-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum (

I perf. percecīdi, Flor. 4, 12, 7), 3, v. a. caedo, to beat or cut to pieces, to smash.

I In gen.: os alicui, Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 12; id. Cas. 2, 6, 52; Sen. Q. N. 4, 4, 1.—

II Esp.

A To cut to pieces, rout utterly, destroy: exercitum, Flor. 3, 20, 10: terga hostium, id. 4, 12, 7.—

B In mal. part., i. q. paedicare, Mart. 4, 48, 1; 7, 62, 1 al.; Sen. Prov. 5, 3; Mart. 12, 35, 2; cf.: percisus, paedicatus, pepugisme/nos, Gloss. Philox.; so, too, alicui os, i. q. irrumare, Mart. 2, 72, 3 (al. praecisum).

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