The corpus record — Latin

rescisco

to learn

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Where it lives

Hecyra 7 · 7.77/10k
Mercator 6 · 7.01/10k
Phormio 4 · 3.69/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
Adelphi 2 · 2.02/10k
Heautontimorumenos 2 · 1.82/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

rē-scisco — Lewis & Short

rē-scisco, īvi or ii, ītum, 3 (the primitive form, rescio, is assumed by

Gell. 2, 19, 4, but is not confirmed by any example),

I v. inch. n., to learn, find out, ascertain a thing (qs. bringing it again to light from concealment; cf. reperio; mostly ante-class.; esp. freq. in Ter.).

1 In tempp. press.: omnia omnes ubi resciscunt, Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 27 sq.; Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 29; id. As. 3, 3, 153; id. Bacch. 4, 7, 28 et saep.; Ter. And. 2, 3, 26; id. Heaut. 4, 2, 3; 4, 3, 19 et saep.—

2 In tempp. perff.: ea Lucani ubi resciverunt, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 2, 19, 7; Naev. and Cato ap. Gell. l. l.; Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 40; id. Cist. 1, 3, 48; id. Capt. 5, 1, 25; id. Bacch. 4, 6, 12 et saep.; Ter. And. 2, 2, 3; 3, 2, 14; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 47; id. Ad. 5, 3, 5: cum id rescierit, * Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91; Caes. B. G. 1, 28; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 2; Liv. 41, 22; Suet. Calig. 17; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 227; Ov. M. 2, 424: rescierunt, Nep. Paus. 3, 4: resciit, id. Dat. 2, 4: rescituros, id. Eum. 8, 6: rescitum iri, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 45.

In the wild

rescisco Terence, Adelphi 4.2
Resciscam Plautus, Mercator 4.3
resciscet Terence, Heautontimorumenos 4.3
rescisces Terence, Hecyra 2.1
resciscere Terence, Hecyra 3.1
resciscere Terence, Hecyra 3.5

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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