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tabeo

tabeo

to rot away, decay

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

Where it lives

  • Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
  • Hercules Oetaeus 4 · 3.55/10k
  • Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
  • Pharsalia 10 · 1.96/10k
  • Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
  • Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
  • Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
  • Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
  • Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
  • Thebais 6 · 0.96/10k
  • Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
  • Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tabeO — de Vaan

tabeO 'to rot away, decay' [v. II] (Enn.+) Derivatives: tabum 'gore, putrified fluid matter' (Enn.+), tabes, -is [fj 'wasting, decay' (Lucr.+), tabescere (pf. tabui) 'to melt away, waste away' ( Andr.-H); — [de Vaan, s.v. tabeO, p. 617]

2. tābĕo — Lewis & Short

tābĕo, ēre, v. n.tabes,

I to melt, melt down or away, to waste away, consume (poet.).
I Lit.: aliis rebus concrescunt semina membris, Atque aliis extenuantur tabentque vicissim, Lucr. 4, 1262: corpora tabent, Ov. M. 7, 541: tabentes genae, Verg. A. 12, 221: tabens sanies, Stat. Th. 4, 364: sale tabentes artus in litore ponunt, dripping, Verg. A. 1, 173.—
II Trop., to waste away, vanish: seditio tabetne an numeros augificat suos? Enn. ap. Non. 76, 2 (Trag. v. 105 Vahl.).

In the wild

6 of 85 attestations shown.

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. tabeO (scan p. 617; entry #1750).

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