efflictim
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From efflīgō (“I strike dead”) + -tim.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /efˈfliːk.tim/, [ɛfˈflʲiːkt̪ɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /efˈflik.tim/, [efˈflikt̪im]
Adverb edit
efflīctim (not comparable)
- to death, desperately
- Synonym: efflīctē
- c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina prologue.49:
- eam puellam hic senex
amat efflictim et item contra filius.- That old man is madly in love with this girl, but so is his son.
- eam puellam hic senex
References edit
- “efflictim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “efflictim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers