The corpus record — Latin

turgidus

turgidus · adj

swollen

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Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

turgĭdus — Lewis & Short

turgĭdus, a, um, adj.turgeo,

I swollen, inflated, distended, turgid (class.; syn. tumidus).

I Lit.: membrum tumidum ac turgidum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 19: oculi, Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 15: labra, Mart. 6, 39, 8: venter, App. M. 6, p. 176, 40; cf.: aqua subter cutem fusa turgidus, Plin. 7, 45, 46, § 148: haedus, Cui frons turgida cornibus, Hor. C. 3, 13, 4: loca semine, Lucr. 4, 1034: mare, Hor. C. 1, 3, 19; cf.: fluvii hibernā nive, id. ib. 4, 12, 4: vento vela, id. ib. 2, 10, 24; Ov. Am. 2, 11, 42: (femina), i. e. pregnant, id. A. A. 2, 661.—

II Trop., of speech, inflated, turgid (very rare): oratio, Petr. 2, 6: Alpinus, Hor. S. 1, 10, 36: alto fastu, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 158.

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