The corpus record — Latin

resupino

to bend

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-sŭpīno — Lewis & Short

rĕ-sŭpīno, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or turn back (rare; not in Cic.).

I Lit.: puer ad me accurrit, Pone apprehendit pallio, resupinat, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23: assurgentem ibi regem umbone resupinat, Liv. 4, 19: hominem, Cels. 7, 16: nares planā manu, to bend back, Quint. 11, 3, 80: colla (turtures, cum bibunt), Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; cf.: caput (aves bibentes), id. 10, 46, 63, § 129: valvas, to beat in, break down, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 51. resupinati cessantia tympana Galli, i. e. prostrate from drunkenness, Juv. 8, 176 et saep.— In mal. part., to stretch out: aviam amici, Juv. 3, 112.— Pass. in mid. force: leones resupinari, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162.—

II Trop.: rem, to overthrow, ruin, destroy, Att. ap. Non. 165, 3: quid tantopere te resupinet? makes proud, puffs up, Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 1.

In the wild

resupinandum Celsus, De Medicina 7.14
resupinatus Celsus, De Medicina 7.14
resupinato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.46
resupinat Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.112
resupinatam Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.5.13
resupinet Seneca, De Beneficiis 2.13.2

6 of 42 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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