The corpus record — Latin

rarenter

seldom1 (Andr.+), raritudo

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Where it lives

Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k

What it meant

1. rarenter — de Vaan

rarenter 'seldom1 (Andr.+), raritudo 'looseness, openness1 (Lucr.+), rarescere 'to thin out, open out' (Lucr.+), rarefacere 'to make less solid' (Lucr.+). Antonym of densus. EM state that Lat. rarenter was formed on the example of frequenter. Rams has been connected with PIE *fj2erH~ 'to disappear, perish1 by EM, but this is not obvious semantically. Others connect Gr. έρημος 'lonely'. Schrijver is critical of all … — [de Vaan, s.v. rarenter, p. 528]

2. rārenter — Lewis & Short

rārenter, adv., v. rarus

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In the wild

rarenter Apuleius, Florida 17
rarenter Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.25.8
rarenter Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.15.4
rarenter Cato, De agri cultura 103
rarenter Apuleius, Florida 9.p1
rarenter Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.1

6 of 7 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. rarenter (scan pp. 528-529; entry #1467). Root candidates: *rati-, *hirhj-.

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