The corpus record — Latin

rodo

rodo · v. a

to gnaw

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 84.39/10k
De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 2 · 32.63/10k
De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Cupido cruciatur 2 · 27.14/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Helius 2 · 13.95/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 3 · 13.72/10k
De Medicina 113 · 11.03/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k

Densest 12 of 87 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rōdo — Lewis & Short

rōdo, si, sum, 3, v. a.cf. rado,

I to gnaw (class.).

I Lit.: rutabulum, Novat. ap. Fest. p. 262 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 226 Rib.): clipeos, etc. (mures), Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59: praetextam, Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 19: dente pollicem, Hor. Epod. 5, 48: vivos ungues, id. S. 1, 10, 71: vitem (caper), Ov. F. 1, 357: saxa capellae, id. M. 13, 691: reliquias (mures), Phaedr. 1, 22, 6: rosus tineis, Stat. S. 4, 9, 10. —

B Transf., to eat away, waste away, corrode, consume: ripas (flumina), Lucr. 5, 256: ferrum (robigo), Ov. P. 1, 1, 71: tophum (calx), Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 166. —

II Trop., to backbite, slander, disparage, etc. (syn. vellico): in conviviis rodunt, Cic. Balb. 26, 57: absentem amicum, Hor. S. 1, 4, 81: libertino patre natum, id. ib. 1, 6, 46: cuncta robiginosis dentibus, Mart. 5, 28, 7; cf.: dentem dente, i. e. to speak ill of each other, id. 13, 2, 6: murmura secum et rabiosa silentia rodunt, i. e. to mutter to one's self, Pers. 3, 81.

2. ródó — Walde–Hofmann

ródó, -si, -sum, -ere ,nage, benage, verzehre* [seit Lucr., rom., ebenso rösiö „das Fressen“ seit Cels.; vgl. rösor ,Benager* Ambr.), röstrum (*röd-trom), -i n. „Nagewerkzeug, Rüssel, Schnauze, Maul (Goldberger Gl. 18, 32), Schnabel* (seit Plaut., rom. [röstra Pl. „Rednerbühne auf dem Forum" seit Cic.]; rösträtus, -a, -um „mit einem Schnabel versehen“ seit Inschr. und Verg., rösträlis „zu den röstra 440 rödus — … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ródó, p. 1345]

In the wild

rosae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.10.p4
rosas Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.20
rosa Celsus, De Medicina 6.7.p4
rosa Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.16
rosa Celsus, De Medicina 2.33.p3
rosa Celsus, De Medicina 4.25

6 of 394 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ródó (scan pp. 1345-1346; entry #2311). Root candidates: *uröd-.

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