The corpus record — Latin

quaerito

quaerito · v. freq. a

to seek

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

Where it lives

Cistellaria 4 · 7.65/10k
Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
Trinummus 3 · 3.05/10k
Poenulus 3 · 2.72/10k
Asinaria 2 · 2.48/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
Pseudolus 2 · 1.81/10k
Miles Gloriosus 2 · 1.58/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quaerĭto — Lewis & Short

quaerĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.quaero,

I to seek, search, or look for earnestly (ante-class.).

I In gen.: hominem inter vivos quaeritamus mortuum, Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 15: defessus sum quaeritando, id. Am. 4, 1, 4; id. Cist. 4, 2, 19: aliquem mari terrāque, id. Poen. prol. 105: te ipsum, Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 2: hospitium ab aliquo, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 77: lanā ac telā victum, to earn, Ter. And. 1, 1, 48: multis languoribus peresus essem te quaeritando, Cat. 58, 15.—Prov.: hujus sermo haud cinerem quaeritat, needs no ashes, i. e. no polishing, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 10. —

II In partic., to ask, inquire, or demand earnestly, to wish to know exactly: quid tu id quaeritas? Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 22; id. Cist. 4, 2, 57; Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 17.

In the wild

quaeritas Plautus, Epidicus 3.4
quaerita Plautus, Amphitruo 4.2
quaeritas Plautus, Poenulus 3.3
quaeritando Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.8.8
quaeritas Plautus, Asinaria 2.3
quaeritemus Plautus, Mostellaria 4.4

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.