detrunco
Latin edit
Etymology edit
dē- + truncō (“to maim by cutting off”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈtrun.koː/, [d̪eːˈt̪rʊŋkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈtrun.ko/, [d̪eˈt̪ruŋko]
Verb edit
dētruncō (present infinitive dētruncāre, perfect active dētruncāvī, supine dētruncātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to lop off, cut off
- (transitive) to mutilate (the body from which a limb is cut off), behead
Conjugation edit
References edit
- “detrunco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “detrunco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers