The corpus record — Latin

Raptim

in a rush

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 7 · 5.54/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 8 · 5.14/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 5 · 4.69/10k
Nero 3 · 3.84/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 6 · 3.57/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 6 · 3.45/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 5 · 3.4/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 4 · 2.95/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k

Densest 12 of 64 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. raptim — de Vaan

raptim 'in a rush' (Lucr.+), rapmator 'pillager' (Varro+); abripere 'to snatch away, kidnap' (P1.+), arripere 'to grasp, get hold of (PL+)> corripere 'to grab, hurry off rapum (P1.+), deripere 'to tear off, pull down' (Pl>), dnipere 'to tear to pieces, run after' (P1.+), eru/ipere 'to seize away* (P1.+), iproripere 'to snatch forth, rush forth1 (P1.+), surru/ipere, surpere 'to steal* (P1.+), subreptTcius 'stolen* … — [de Vaan, s.v. raptim, p. 527]

2. raptim — Lewis & Short

raptim, adv.raptus, from rapio,

I by snatching or hurrying away, i. e.,

I Violently, greedily, rapaciously (very rare): ludunt raptim pila, Nov. ap. Non. 96, 20: semine raptim avium fame devorato, Plin. 17, 14, 22, § 99.—Far more freq. and class.,

II Hastily, suddenly, speedily, hurriedly: mittere, Lucr. 1, 662: haec scripsi raptim, ut, etc., Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1: cui donet inpermissa raptim Gaudia, Hor. C. 3, 6, 27: aliquem sequi, Liv 26, 5: omnia raptim atque turbate aguntur, Caes. B. C. 1, 5; cf.: raptim omnia praepropere agendo, Liv. 22, 19: praecipitata raptim consilia, id. 31, 32: proelium inire raptim et avide, id. 9, 35: ignis raptim factus, id. 21, 14: agmen ducere, Curt. 5, 13, 1; Tac. A. 1, 56: illa levem fugiens raptim secat aethera pennis, swiftly flying, Verg. G. 1, 409: fruaris tempore raptim, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 198 et saep. (old form raptē, Ven. Fort. Vit. S. Mart. 4, 651).

In the wild

raptim Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XVI.p2
raptim Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.11
raptim Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 139
raptim Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.11.1
raptim Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.605
raptimque Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p64

6 of 281 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. raptim (scan pp. 527-528; entry #1466). Root candidates: *erp-, *rap-, *rep-.

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.