The corpus record — Latin

tenesmos

tenesmos · m

a straining at stool

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Where it lives

Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Naturalis Historia 24 · 0.61/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

tēnesmos — Lewis & Short

tēnesmos, i, m., = teinesmo/s,

I a straining at stool, tenesmus, Plin. 28, 14, 59, § 211; 20, 6, 23, § 54; 20, 21, 84, § 227; Nep. Att. 21, 2; Scrib. Comp. 142 (in Cels. 4, 18, written as Greek).

In the wild

tenesmum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.9.p4
tenesmis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.20.p1
tenesmon Celsus, De Medicina 4.25
tenesmum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.18.p4
tenesmo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.12.p2
Tenesmo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p2

6 of 26 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.