The corpus record — Latin

turpo

turpo · v. a

to make ugly

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

turpo — Lewis & Short

turpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to make ugly or unsightly, to soil, defile, pollute, disfigure, deform (mostly poet.; cf. deformo).

I Lit.: Jovis aram sanguine turpari, to be defiled or polluted, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; 3, 19, 45 (Trag. v. 125 Vahl.): sanguine capillos, Verg. A. 10, 832: canitiem pulvere, id. ib. 12, 611: frontem (cicatrix), Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf.: candidos umeros (rixae), id. C. 1, 13, 10: ora (pallor), Sil. 7, 631: te quia rugae Turpant et capitis nives, Hor. C. 4, 13, 12: ipsos (scabies), Tac. H. 5, 4: Herculea turpatus gymnade vultus, Stat. Th 4, 106.—

II Trop., to dishonor, disgrace: ornamenta, Cic. Fragm. ap. Hier Ep. 66, 7: avos, Stat. Th. 8, 433: afflictos Argos, id. ib. 10, 437.

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