The corpus record — Latin

renitor

to strive

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Where it lives

De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

rĕ-nītor — Lewis & Short

rĕ-nītor, nīti,

I v. dep. n., to strive or struggle against, to withstand, resist (rare and not ante-Aug.; syn.: resisto, adversor, reluctor).

I Lit.: quoniam alter motus alteri renititur, Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198; 16, 42, 81, § 222; so, os (specillo), Cels. 5, 28, 12.—

II Trop.: cum illi renitentes pactos dicerent sese, Liv. 5, 49 Drak.: renitentibus vobis, Curt. 6, 3, 5; Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118: quo renitente, Amm. 31, 12, 15; 31, 13, 10.

In the wild

renititur Celsus, De Medicina 7.26.p3
renisu Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p13
renituntur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.42.p1
renituntur Celsus, De Medicina 7.6
renisus Apuleius, Apologia 99
renitor Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.26

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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