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trucido

trucido · v. a

to cut to pieces

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Where it lives

Galba 2 · 7.25/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De Scorpiace 4 · 5.02/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Historiae 18 · 3.5/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 18 · 2.26/10k
Pro P. Sulla 2 · 2.15/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. trŭcīdo — Lewis & Short

trŭcīdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.perh. for truci-cidare, i. e. truncum caedere,

I to cut to pieces, to slay or kill cruelly, to slaughter, butcher, massacre (class.; syn.: obtrunco, jugulo, perimo).

I Lit.: cavete neu capti sicut pecora trucidemini, Sall. C. 58, 21; cf.: pecus diripi, trucidari, Auct. B. Afr. 20, 6: cives Romanos necandos trucidandosque curavit, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7: ne hic ibidem ante oculos vestros trucidetur, id. Rosc. Am. 5, 13: trucidando occidere, Liv. 29, 18, 14: quos ferro trucidari oportebat, eos nondum voce vulnero, Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 9; id. Rosc. Am. 5, 13: ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet, Hor. A. P. 185: trucidatae legiones, Tac. A. 2, 45: nobilissum corpus ignobili saevitiā, Val. Max. 9, 2, 2.—

II Transf., to cut up, demolish; to destroy, ruin: seu pisces seu porrum et caepe trucidas, chew up, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 21: haec (nubes) multo si forte umore recepit Ignem, continuo magno clamore trucidat, i. e. extinguishes, Lucr. 6, 147: juventus ne effundat patrimonium, ne fenore trucidetur, Cic. Cael. 18, 42: plebem fenore, Liv. 6, 37, 2.

2. trucidö — Walde–Hofmann

trucidö, -avr, -atum, -äre „schlachte ab, metzle nieder* (zunächst von Tieren, dann von Menschen; seit Cic. und Sall.; trucsdatió, -Onis f. „Niedermetzelung® seit Cato, trucidäter, -Sris m. , Niedermetzler* seit Eccl; contrucidó ,metzle nieder* seit Suet): jedenfalls muß an caedere im zweiten Glied festgehalten werden (gegen Skutsch Forsch. 25, der von trux über *trucire zu *ru-cid- und zu trucidàre gelangen will; … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. trucidö, p. 1617]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. trucidö (scan p. 1617; entry #3097). Root candidates: *rerpa-, *rerpu-.

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