The corpus record — Latin

perduro

perduro · v. a

to make hard

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 5 · 2.03/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3 · 0.25/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

per-dūro — Lewis & Short

per-dūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

I Act., to make hard, to harden (late Lat.): teneras plantas, Prud. Psych. 447.—

II Neutr., to last or hold out, to endure (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: obduro, perfero), Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 27: perdurare non posse, Suet. Ner. 24: perdurandi pervicacia, Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 147: longum probitas perdurat in aevum, Ov. Med. Fac. 49: mora perduratura, Stat. Th. 1, 142: non perdurasse in senectutem, Sen. Ben. 7, 28: cotidie unanimiter in templo, abide, continue, Vulg. Act. 2, 46.

Where it came from

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