The corpus record — Latin

velifico

to sail

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Where it lives

De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

vēlĭfĭco — Lewis & Short

vēlĭfĭco, āre (

I act. collat. form of velificor), to sail, make sail: nauta per urbanas velificabat aquas, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 6. per summa aequora, Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 103; 9, 29, 47, § 88: erectis capitibus, id. 8, 13, 13, § 35.— Pass.: velificatus Athōs, sailed through, Juv. 10, 174.

In the wild

velifico Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.11.p2
velificantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.5.p6
velificata Propertius, Elegiae 2.28b.6
velificatus Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.174
velificante Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.29.p3
velificatus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.3.9.5

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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