The corpus record — Latin

perluo

perluo · v. a

to wash off

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

per-lŭo — Lewis & Short

per-lŭo (pelluo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.,

Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4),

I to wash off, to wash bathe, lave: manus undā, Ov. F. 5, 435: aliquid aquā marinā, Col. 12, 20, 3: aedem madentibus pennis, Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 127: sitientes artus, Petr. 120: sudor perluit ora, id. 123.—Pass., to wash one's self, to bathe: perluitur solitā Titania lympha, Ov. M. 3, 173: in fluminibus perluuntur, Caes. B. G. 6, 20; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 4 (in App. M. 2, 30, p. 166 Oud., read diffluens).

Where it came from

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