The corpus record — Latin

tardo

tardo · v. a

to make slow

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Punica 17 · 2.23/10k
De Bello Civili 7 · 2.17/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k

Densest 12 of 66 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tardo — Lewis & Short

tardo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.id..

I Act., to make slow, to hinder, delay, retard, impede, prevent (freq. and class.; syn.: remoror, impedio): aut impedire profectionem aut certe tardare, Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 1: cursum, id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: pedes (alta harena), Ov. H. 10, 20: alas, Hor. C. 2, 17, 25: at non tardatus casu neque territus heros, Verg. A. 5, 453: tardante sagittā Interdum genua impediunt, id. ib. 12, 746: nos Etesiae vehementissime tardarunt, Cic. Att. 6, 8, 4: celeritatem insequendi, Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: palus Romanos ad insequendum tardabat, Caes. B. G. 7, 26: quas non altitudo montis tardare potuisset, id. ib. 7, 52; 3, 70; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 130: tormentorum administrationem, Caes. B. C. 2, 2: impetum hostium, id. B. G. 2, 25: impetum, id. ib. 7, 46; id. B. C. 1, 27: studia alicujus, Cic. Or. 1, 3: illum in persequendi studio maeror, hos laetitia tardavit, id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: aliquem socors ipsius natura, id. Brut. 68, 239: vereor, ne exercitus nostri tardentur animis, id. Phil. 11, 10, 24: me ratio pudoris a praesentis laude tardaret, id. Caecin. 27, 77.—With inf.: propius adire tardari, Caes. B. C. 2, 43.—

II Neutr., to tarry, loiter, linger, delay (very rare; syn.: cunctor, moror): tu mitte mihi quaeso obviam litteras, numquid putes rei publicae nomine tardandum esse nobis, Cic. Att. 6, 7, 2: fuci tardantes, Plin. 11, 11, 11, § 27: mors non tardat, Vulg. Ecclus. 14, 12; id. Exod. 22, 29; id. Heb. 10, 37.

In the wild

tardabat Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.26.2
tardavit Horace, Carmina 2.17
tardante Silius Italicus, Punica 3.459
tardo Plautus, Poenulus 3.1
tardat Statius, Thebais 12.142
tardaret Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.67

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