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The corpus record — Latin

reclino

reclino · v. a

to bend back

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

Where it lives

  • Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
  • Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
  • De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
  • Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
  • Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
  • Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
  • De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
  • Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
  • Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
  • Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
  • Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rē^-clīno — Lewis & Short

rē^-clīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.clino, kli/nw,

I to bend back, lean back, recline (class. but rare).
I Lit.: alces ad eas (arbores) se applicant atque ita paulum modo reclinatae quietem capiunt ... Huc cum se consuetudine reclinaverunt, etc., Caes. B. G. 6, 27: caput, * Cic. Arat. 417: non habet ubi caput reclinet, Vulg. Matt. 8, 10: scuta, to lay aside, rest, * Verg. A. 12, 130: corpora prona, to turn over, Stat. Th. 9, 369.—Mid.: reclinari ad suos (in dicendo), Quint. 11, 3, 132: te in remoto gramine reclinatum, Hor. C. 2, 3, 7: reclinatus in cubitum, Petr. 39, 2; cf.: in aliquod adminiculum, Sen. Ep. 36, 9.—
II Trop.: nullum ab labore me reclinat otium, removes, releases me, Hor. Epod. 17, 24: in quem onus imperii reclinaret, might lean, rest, be supported by, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 2, 3.— Absol., to revolt, become rebellious: nec arrogantibus verbis quidquam scripsit (Julianus), ne videretur subito reclinasse, Amm. 20, 8, 4.

In the wild

6 of 19 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.