The corpus record — Latin

transfodio

transfodio · v. a

to thrust

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

trans-fŏdĭo — Lewis & Short

trans-fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3, v. a.,

I to thrust or run through, to stab through, transfix, transpierce (class., but not in Cic.): Galli in scrobes delapsi transfodiebantur, * Caes. B. G. 7, 82: deinde fugienti latus transfodisse, Liv. 39, 42, 12: transfosso oculo, Tac. A. 3, 20 fin.: cochlea acu transfossa, Plin. 30, 4, 11, § 31.—In a Greek construction: pectora duro Transfossi ligno, Verg. A. 9, 544.

In the wild

transfodiebantur Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.82.1
transfodit Seneca, De Ira 3.17.1
transfossi Vergil, Aeneid 9.544
transfossus Silius Italicus, Punica 7.659
transfosso Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.292
transfodit Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10.83.19.p1

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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