exauguro
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom ex- (“ex-: undo”) + augurāre (“to act as augur, to consecrate”), from augur + -āre (suffix forming verbs).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈsau̯.ɡu.roː/, [ɛkˈs̠äu̯ɡʊroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsau̯.ɡu.ro/, [eɡˈzäːu̯ɡuro]
Verb
editexaugurō (present infinitive exaugurāre, perfect active exaugurāvī, supine exaugurātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to deconsecrate
- (transitive) to profane, to desecrate
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Translated by Rev. Canon Roberts.I, 55:
- exaugurare fana sacellaque statuit
- he decided to deconsecrate the fanes and chapels
- exaugurare fana sacellaque statuit
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- English: exaugurate
References
edit- “exauguro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exauguro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.