The corpus record — Latin

vertigo

vertigo · f

a turning

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vertīgo — Lewis & Short

vertīgo, ĭnis, f.verto,

I a turning or whirling round (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: assidua caeli, Ov. M. 2, 70: ponti, id. ib. 11, 548: venti, Sen. Q. N. 5, 13, 3: torti fili, Luc. 6, 460: rotarum, Prud. Psych. 414: assiduā vertigine rotare aliquem, Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 150: quibus una Quiritem Vertigo facit, a turn, twirl of a slave in manumission, Pers. 5, 76.—

B Transf., a whirling of the head, giddiness, dizziness, vertigo, Liv. 44, 6, 8; Plin. 20, 15, 57, § 161; 20, 17, 73, § 194; 25, 9, 70, § 117; 25, 11, 89, § 139 al.; Macr. S. 7, 9.—Of persons intoxicated, Juv. 6, 304.—

II Trop., a revolution, change, alteration: vertigine rerum Attoniti, Luc. 8, 16.

In the wild

vertigini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.3
vertigines Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.17.p8
vertigine Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 8.3
vertigines Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.10.p2
vertigo Ausonius, Parentalia 22.13
vertigo Ausonius, Epistularum 20.18

6 of 62 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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