The corpus record — Latin

perconto

perconto · v. a

to question strictly

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Where it lives

Florida 3 · 3.81/10k
Stichus 2 · 3.22/10k
Epistulae 3 · 3.03/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Metamorphoses 12 · 2.25/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Hecyra 2 · 2.22/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
Bacchides 2 · 2.03/10k

Densest 12 of 51 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

perconto — Lewis & Short

perconto (percuncto), āre, 1, v. a. and n. (ante- and post-class.) [v. percontor],

I to question strictly or particularly, to inquire earnestly: docte percontat, Aeneas quo pacto, etc., Naev. ap. Non. 474, 7: si percontassem, etc., Nov. ib. 474, 5: quod sedulo percontaveram, App. M. 11, p. 266, 8.—

2 percontor, ātus, in pass. signif.: de ovium dentibus opiliones percontantur, are questioned (preceded by quae a grammatico quaerenda sunt), Gell. 16, 6, 11: percontato pretio, App. M. 1, p. 113, 14.—Hence, poet., as subst.: percontatum, i, n., = a)ci/wma, a fundamental truth, an established principle, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 5, 46.

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