The corpus record — Latin

recutio

to strike back

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

Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rĕ-cŭtĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-cŭtĭo, no

I perf., cussum, 3, v. a. quatio, to strike back or backwards, to cause to rebound (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): aequor penitus, Val. Fl. 5, 167; jugum Christi, Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 40: horrorem, id. Conf. 8, 11: uteroque recusso Insonuere cavae cavernae, being caused to reverberate, * Verg. A. 2, 52: recussus somno, aroused by shaking, startled, App. M. 5, p. 170, 27; 4, p. 153, 35.

In the wild

recussu Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.9e.7.p2
recussus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.26
recussu Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.53
recussa Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.427
recusso Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 8.126
recussa Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.25

6 of 9 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.