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The corpus record — Latin

vetero

vetero · v. a

to make old

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĕtĕro — Lewis & Short

vĕtĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.vetus,

I to make old (late Lat.): dicendo autem novum veteravit prius, Vulg. Heb. 8, 13.—P. a.: vĕ-tĕrātus, a, um, old, inveterate: mederi ulceribus veteratis, Plin. 32, 10, 52, § 141: caseus, mouldy, Scrib. Comp. 140.

Where it came from

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

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