The corpus record — Latin

quassatio

quassatio · f

a shaking

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

quassātĭo — Lewis & Short

quassātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a shaking: capitum, Liv. 22, 17, 3: cymbalorum, a striking together, beating, Arn. 7, 237: quassationes, shakings of the body, Macr. S. 7, 15, 9. —

II A disturbance, affliction: cessavit quassatio, Vulg. Psa. 105, 30.

In the wild

quassatione Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.17
quassatio Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.17.3
quassatio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 p17

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.