The corpus record — Latin

recingo

to ungird

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

Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
Saturae 4 · 8.84/10k
Epistulae 7 · 7.07/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
De Vita Beata 4 · 5.51/10k
De Providentia 2 · 4.89/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 57 · 4.78/10k
Timaeus 2 · 4.74/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 2 · 4.65/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 11 · 4.47/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 4 · 4.28/10k

Densest 12 of 146 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-cingo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-cingo, no

I perf., ctum, 3, v. a., to ungird, loose that which was girded (a poet. word of the Aug. period; esp. freq. in Ov.): tunicas, Ov. M. 1, 398; id. Am. 1, 5, 9; 3, 1, 51: vestes, id. M. 7, 182; * Verg. A. 4, 518: cum veste recinctā, Val. Fl. 8, 115: zonam, Ov. H. 2, 116.— Mid.: neque eo contenta recingor, I ungird myself, Ov. M. 5, 593; and, in poet. construction, with acc.: sumptum recingitur anguem, divests herself of the snake which she had girt around her, Ov. M. 4, 510; cf.: ferrum recingi, Stat. S. 1, 4, 75.—Of persons: mulier recincta, Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 266.—

II To gird again: Serenianus recinctus est ut Pannonius, Amm. 26, 5, 3.

In the wild

rectissimis Cicero, De Inventione 1.1
rectum Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.7.26
recto Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 p7
rectam Cicero, De Officiis 1.118.p1
rectas Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p15
recti Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.8.10

6 of 683 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.