The corpus record — Latin

sagino

sagino · v. a

to fatten

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3 · 5.08/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Metamorphoses 10 · 1.87/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 10 · 1.27/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

săgīno — Lewis & Short

săgīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.sagina (class.; cf. educare).

I Lit.

A Of animals, to fatten, fat: pullos columbinos, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 9: boves ad sacrificia, id. ib. 2, 1, 20: aves offis, Col. 8, 7, 3: equum hordeo ervoque (with roborare largo cibo), id. 6, 27, 8: porcum, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 23: corpus, Curt. 9, 7, 16: glires fagi glande, Plin. 16, 6, 7, § 18: catulos ferarum molliore praedā, Quint. 12, 6, 6 et saep.—

B Of persons, to cram, stuff, feast: saginare plebem populares suos, ut jugulentur, Liv. 6, 17, 3: nuptialibus cenis, id. 36, 17: terra, quae copiā rerum omnium (illos Gallos) saginaret, id. 38, 17: cum exquisitis cottidie Antonius saginaretur epulis, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119: convivas, id. 33, 10, 47, § 136.—

II Transf., to feed, nourish, etc.: terra multorum annorum frondibus et herbis, velut saginata largioribus pabulis, Col. 2, 1, 5; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 54: fons umore supero saginatus, Sol. 45: qui ab illo pestifero ac perdito cive jampridem rei publicae sanguine saginantur, * Cic. Sest. 36, 78; Curt. 5, 1, 39; Tac. H. 4, 42.—Hence, săgīnātus, a, um, P. a., fattened, fat (late Lat.): saginatior hostia, Hier. Ep. 21, 12; so, Christianus ursis, Tert. Jejun. 17 fin.: vitulum, Vulg. Luc. 15, 23.

In the wild

saginaret Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.7
sagina Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.15.2
saginaret Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p13
sagino Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.1
saginantur Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 78
saginat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.6.p1

6 of 77 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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