The corpus record — Latin

tabidus

tabidus · adj

melting

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

Where it lives

Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tābĭdus — Lewis & Short

tābĭdus, a, um, adj.tabeo,

I melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, consuming, putrefying, pining away, languishing (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: nix, Liv. 21, 36: corruptum et tabidum corpus, Suet. Tib. 51: ferae, id. Calig. 26: juvenci, Sen. Oedip. 147: jecur, id. ib. 358: mens, Ov. P. 1, 1, 67: tabidus erro, i. e. pining for love, Calp. Ecl. 3, 50.—

II Transf., act., wasting, consuming, corrupting, infectious: venenum, Tac. A. 12, 66: vetustas, Ov. P. 4, 8, 49: pestis, Mart. 1, 79, 1: lues, Verg. A. 3, 137: Hecate, Luc. 6, 737: victus, i. e. starvation, Sen. Herc. Fur. 691. — Comp., sup., and adv. seem not to occur.

In the wild

tabida Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.1.67
tabida Vergil, Aeneid 3.137
tabidus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 4.132
tabidaque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p36
tabido Suetonius, Tiberius 51.2
tabido Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.9e.5

6 of 25 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.