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The corpus record — Latin

viduo

viduo · v. a

to deprive

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĭdŭo — Lewis & Short

vĭdŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.viduus,

I to deprive, bereave of any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I In gen.: civibus urbem, Verg. A. 8, 571: ornos foliis, Hor. C. 2, 9, 8: arva pruinis, Verg. G. 4, 518: vitem pristino alimento, Col. Arb. 1, 4: regna (Plutonis) lumine, Sil. 3, 601: dexteram ense, Sen. Hippol. 866: penates, Stat. Th. 3, 385: maritum amplexibus, App. M. 4, p. 154, 38. —With gen.: architectus ingeni viduatus, Vitr. 5, 7, 7: orba pedum partim, manuum viduata vicissim, Lucr. 5, 840.—
II In partic.: vĭdŭāta, ae, adj. f., bereft of her husband, widowed: Agrippina viduata morte Domitii, Suet. Galb. 5; cf. Mart. 9, 31, 6; Tac. A. 16, 30: conjux viduata taedis, i. e. divorced, Sen. Med. 581.

In the wild

6 of 134 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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