The corpus record — Latin

vesco

vesco · v. a

to feed

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
de Natura Deorum 11 · 3.08/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vesco — Lewis & Short

vesco, ĕre, v. a.vescor,

I to feed with any thing: quis nos vescet carne, Tert. Jejun. 5.—Pass., Isid. Orig. 20, 2, 27: vescendi pupilli causā, Dig. 42, 5, 33.

In the wild

vesci Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.16.p3
Vescuntur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.18.p2
vesci Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.86
vescantur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.50
vescere Tertullian, Apologeticum 8.2
vescerentur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.p1

6 of 200 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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