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rigo

to irrigate, make wet

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Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
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Densest 12 of 67 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rigo — de Vaan

rigo 'to irrigate, make wet' [v, I] (Lucr,+) Derivatives: irrigare 'to make wet, irrigate' (PK+), jirriguus 'flooded, drenched' (PL+), irrigrvus 'well-watered' (Cato), irrigatid 'irrigation' (Varro+), Pit, *rig-a- 'to lead toward'. It cognates: maybe O, regaturei [dat,sg.] m, epithet of Iuppiter, *rega-tor-cl PIE *Hrig- 'to stretch', IE cognates: see s,v. rigeo. Quite clearly, the form *in-rigare is older than … — [de Vaan, s.v. rigo, p. 537]

2. rĭgo — Lewis & Short

rĭgoāvi, ātum, 1, v. a.cf. Gr. bre/xw, to wet; Germ. Regen, rain.

I To wet, moisten, water, bedew any thing with a liquid (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: irrigo, madefacio).

A Lit.: imbres omnia maria ac terras sparguntque rigantque, Lucr. 6, 612: Nilus rigat Aegyptum, id. 6, 714; Hor. C. 3, 3, 48 (for which, irrigat, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130); so, prata (fons), Lucr. 5, 602; Ov. F. 5, 210; cf.: lucum perenni aquā (fons). Liv. 1, 21: campos (Euphratis) accolae, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 130: arbores, id. 17, 26, 40, § 249; cf. seminaria (opp. conspergere), Col. 5, 6, 8: quā Tanais Getas rigat, Tib. 4, 1, 146: lacrimis ora, Verg. A. 9, 251: fletibus ora, Ov. M. 11, 419; id. P. 2, 11, 9; id. A. A. 1, 532; Luc. 4, 180; Sen. Hippol. 990 al.—Absol.: nubes nimbique rigantes, Lucr. 6, 521; so, accolae, Curt. 8, 9, 10.—

2 Poet., transf.: natos vitali rore, i. e. to suckle, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20: solis uti lux ac vapor cernuntur terras rigare, bedew, flood, Lucr. 4, 203; cf. id. 5, 592: Babylonica, to wet (sc. with urine), id. 4, 1026.—

B Trop., to water, bedew, etc.: omnium ingenia, Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: ora alicujus Philetaeā aquā, Prop. 3 (4), 3, 52. Ov. Am. 3, 9, 26.—

II Like irrigo, to lead, convey, or conduct water or any other liquid to a place (very rare).

A Lit.: aquam Albanam emissam per agros rigabis (= ad rigandum diduces), an old oracle in Liv. 5, 16 fin. Drak. N. cr.: vitalem sanguinem per venas, Plin. 11, 37, 69, § 182. —

B Trop.: hinc motus per membra rigantur, are directed, conveyed, Lucr. 2, 262: somnum per pectora, Furius ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (for which, irrigat, Lucr. 4, 908; Verg. A. 1, 692).

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. rigo (scan p. 537; entry #1490).

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