The corpus record — Latin

scintillo

scintillo · v. n

to sparkle

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Where it lives

De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

scintillo — Lewis & Short

scintillo, āvi, 1, v. n.scintilla,

I to sparkle, glitter, glow, gleam, flash (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. fulguro).

I Lit.: templa caeli, Lucr. 6, 644: fulgetra, Plin. 2, 43, 43, § 113: clipeus ardens, id. 2, 34, 34, § 100: testā ardente oleum, Verg. G. 1, 392: oculi, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 77: carbunculi contra radios solis, Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 95: cristae, Sil. 7, 593.—

II Trop.: scintillavit cruentis Ira genis, Sil. 9, 562: tunc Venus et calidi scintillat fervor amoris, Calp. 5, 22: cupiditatis ardor, qui scintillet in animis audientium, Ambros. Psa. 118, Serm. 18, 22.

Where it came from

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