The corpus record — Latin

sagitto

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 2 · 6.36/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Hercules 3 · 3.94/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

săgitto — Lewis & Short

săgitto, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [id.].

I Neutr., to discharge arrows, to shoot with arrows (post-Aug. for sagittam jacere, etc.): hos equitare et sagittare docent, Just. 41, 2, 5; Curt. 7, 5, 42; Sol. 19 med.; Vulg. Psa. 10, 2; 63, 4.—

II Act., in part. perf.: săgittātus, a, um, shot or wounded with an arrow, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 12 med.; Ambros. de Cain et Abel, 1, 5, 15.

In the wild

sagittas Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.188
sagittas Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.3.67
sagittas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.11.p5
sagittas Seneca, Phaedra 1
sagittas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.3.p4
sagittas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.29

6 of 115 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.