The corpus record — Latin

per-edo1

per-edo1 · v. a

to eat up

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. pĕr-ĕdo — Lewis & Short

pĕr-ĕdo, ēdi, ēsum, 3, v. a.,

I to eat up, consume (poet.).

I Lit.: cibum, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 893 P.: quinque panes et gemellos pisces, Prud. Cath. 9, 58.—

B Transf., to consume, devour, etc.: nec peredit Impositam celer ignis Aetnam, Hor. C. 3, 4, 75: lacrimae peredere umore exsangues genas, old poet in Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. Rel. p. 225 Rib.): vesco sale saxa peresa, Lucr. 1, 326: saxa, Tib. 1, 4, 14 (18): morbo peresa Vellera, Verg. G. 3, 561. —

II Trop., to consume, waste away, etc.: quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit, Verg. A. 6, 442: languoribus peresus, Cat. 55, 31.

2. pĕr-ēdo — Lewis & Short

pĕr-ēdo, 3, v. a.,

I to give forth, an old poet in Sid. Ep. 9, 14.

Where it came from

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