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The corpus record — Latin

transfundo

transfundo · v. a

to pour out

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Where it lives

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

What it meant

trans-fundo — Lewis & Short

trans-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a.,

I to pour out from one vessel into another, to pour off, decant, transfuse.
I Lit.: aquam in alia vasa, Col. 12, 12, 1: harenam liquatam in alias fornaces, Plin. 36, 26, 66, § 194; 33, 6, 34, § 103.—Poet.: aliquem mortuum in urnam, i. e. to deposit the ashes, Luc. 8, 769. —Mid.: sanguis in eas venas transfunditur, pours or discharges itself, Cels. praef. med.
II Trop.: omnes suas laudes ad aliquem, to transfer, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 4: omnem amorem in hanc, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77: eorum mores in Macedonas, Curt. 8, 8, 13: divinum spiritum in effigies mutas, Tac. A. 4, 52: errantes animas, Petr. 79.

Where it came from

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