The corpus record — Latin

percoquo

percoquo · v. a

to boil

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 4 · 2.55/10k
De agri cultura 3 · 1.92/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

per-cŏquo — Lewis & Short

per-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,

I to boil or cook thoroughly, boil soft.

I Lit.: prandium, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 18: bubulas carnes, Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 127: lens non bene percocta, id. 22, 25, 70, § 142.—Prov.: In digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit, Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 11.—

II Transf.

A To heat: umorem, Lucr. 6, 858: terram, id. 5, 1254.—

B To ripen: mora percoquit uvas, Ov. R. Am. 83: sol percoquit fructus, Sen. Ben. 7, 31, 3: messem, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 8.—

C To scorch, to blacken by the heat of the sun: nigra virum percocto saecla colore, Lucr. 6, 722.

Where it came from

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