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vitupero1

to inflict censure

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Where it lives

De Partitione Oratoria 6 · 6.13/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 3 · 3.99/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
De Officiis 7 · 2.07/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
Pro A. Caecina 2 · 1.93/10k

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

What it meant

1. vĭtŭpĕro — Lewis & Short

vĭtŭpĕro, āvi, ātum (

I inf. vituperarier, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 21), 1, v. a. vitiumparo, qs. to find fault, accuse of a fault; hence, transf., to inflict censure, to blame, censure, disparage, vituperate (class.; syn.: culpo, objurgo, damno).

I In gen.: deos, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 142: an mavis vituperarier falso quam vero extolli? id. Most. 1, 3, 21: notare ac vituperare, Cic. de Or. 2, 85, 349: multimodis cum istoc animo es vituperandus, Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 1: Pompeius noster in amicitiā P. Lentuli vituperatur, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5: artem aut scientiam aut studium quodpiam vituperare propter eorum vitia, qui in eo studio sunt, Auct. Her. 2, 27, 44: si quis universam (philosophiam) velit vituperare, Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 4: mensae, quae a Platone graviter vituperantur, id. Fin. 2, 28, 92: tuum consilium, id. Mur. 29, 60: (Rhodiorum res publica) minime quidem vituperanda, id. Rep. 3, 35, 48.— Prov.: qui caelum vituperant, who find fault with heaven itself, i. e. are satisfied with nothing, Phaedr. 4, 7, 26.—*

II In relig. lang., to render defective, to spoil an omen: cur omen mihi vituperat? Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 59 dub.

2. vĭtŭpĕro — Lewis & Short

vĭtŭpĕro, ōnis, m.1. vitupero,

I a blamer, censurer, vituperator (post-class.), Gell. 19, 7, 16; Sid. Ep. 4, 22; 8, 1.

3. vituperö — Walde–Hofmann

vituperö, -dvi, -ätum, -üre ,verderbe (ömen); bemängle, tadle* (seit Plaut.), vituperatiö, -ónis f. seit Rhet. Her., vituperätor, -Gris m. „Tadler* seit Cic., vituperäbilis, -e ,tadelnswert* seit Cic. (Adv. -ter spätl.), vituperätivus, -a, -um ,tadelnd* seit Prisc. und Serv., vitupero, -önis m. (Gell., Sidon.), vituperium, - n. „Bemängelung“ (Hirt. Apoll., rom.; nach puerperium usw.): nach Ausweis von vifiligant … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vituperö, p. 1716]

In the wild

vituperando Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 50
uituperabat Suetonius, C. Caligula 36.2
vituperandos Cicero, Philippicae 8.15
vituperando Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 51
vituperamus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.4.7
vituperat Cicero, De Officiis 2.5

6 of 109 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vituperö (scan p. 1716; entry #3291). Root candidates: *vitu-, *vi-.

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