The corpus record — Latin

territo

territo · v. freq. a

to put in terror

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Where it lives

Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 3 · 1.14/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 2 · 0.99/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

terrĭto — Lewis & Short

terrĭto, āre, v. freq. a.id.,

I to put in terror, to frighten, affright, alarm, terrify (class., but perh. not in Cic.): aliquem verbis, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 80: aliquem morte, id. Bacch. 4, 8, 44: pavor territat mentem animi, id. Ep. 1, 1, 4: aliquem territare metu, Caes. B. G. 5, 6: aliquem supplicio, id. ib. 7, 63: audacter territas, humiliter placas, * Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28: alias (civitates) territando ... alias cohortando, Caes B. G. 5, 54: magnas territat urbes, Verg. A. 4, 187; cf. Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 5; id. Curc. 4, 4, 12; 5, 3, 35; Ter. And. 4, 4, 22; Caes. B. G. 5, 57; Liv. 8, 28, 3; Stat. Th. 3, 322.

In the wild

territet Silius Italicus, Punica 15.170
territando Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.1.6
territandi Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p25
territent Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.6.11.8
territat Statius, Thebais 12.356
territat Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.74.5

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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