The corpus record — Latin

transformo

transformo · v. a

to change in shape

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De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

trans-formo — Lewis & Short

trans-formo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to change in shape, transform (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. verto).

I Lit.: (Proteus) Omnia transformat sese in miracula rerum, Verg. G. 4, 441: in vultus sese aniles (Alecto), id. A. 7, 416: membra in juvencos, Ov. M. 10, 237: cuncta In segetem, id. ib. 13, 654: gemmas novem in ignes (i. e. stellas), id. F. 3, 515: (Scylla) in scopulum Transformata, id. M. 14, 74; Vulg. 2 Cor. 3, 18.—

II Trop.: hunc (animum) transformari quodammodo ad naturam eorum, de quibus loquimur, necesse est, Quint. 1, 2, 30.

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