The corpus record — Latin

tabificus

tabificus · adj

melting

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Where it lives

Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

tābĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

tābĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.id.,

I melting, dissolving, wasting, infectious, corroding: radii (solis), Lucr. 6, 737: venenum lentum atque tabificum, Suet. Tib. 73; so, seps, Luc. 9, 723: aër, id. 5, 911: urina, Plin. 8, 37, 56, § 134: sanies, Sil. 6, 276: caeli vitia, Sen. Oedip. 79: terram edisse his tabificum est, Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 29: tabificae mentis perturbationes, * Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36.

In the wild

tabifica Seneca, Oedipus 1
tabificum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.10
tabificum Suetonius, Tiberius 73.2.p2
tabificam Silius Italicus, Punica 6.276
tabifica Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.4.1
tabificae Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.36

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tabificus (scan p. 696; entry #11561).

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