expugno
See also: expugnó
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expugno
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈspuɡ.noː/, [ɛkˈs̠pʊŋnoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈspuɲ.ɲo/, [ekˈspuɲːo]
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expugnō (present infinitive expugnāre, perfect active expugnāvī, supine expugnātum); first conjugation
- (transitive, military) to take by assault, storm, capture, reduce, subdue
- (transitive, figuratively) to subdue, overcome, conquer, reduce
- Synonyms: ēvincō, subigō, subiciō, vincō, conquestō, pācō, superō, dēvincō, domō, prōflīgō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Q. Fuluio Ap. Claudio, prioris anni consulibus, prorogatum imperium est atque exercitus quos habebant decreti, adiectumque ne a Capua quam obsidebant abscederent priusquam expugnassent.
- The military authority of Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius, consuls of the previous year, was extended and the armies which they had were decided upon, and it was added as a proviso that they should not withdraw from Capua, which they were besieging, until they conquered it.
- Q. Fuluio Ap. Claudio, prioris anni consulibus, prorogatum imperium est atque exercitus quos habebant decreti, adiectumque ne a Capua quam obsidebant abscederent priusquam expugnassent.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) to accomplish, achieve (something)
- (transitive) to plunder, pillage, sack (a property, city)
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- “expugno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expugno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expugno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take, storm a town: oppidum capere, expugnare
- to board and capture a boat: navem expugnare
- to take, storm a town: oppidum capere, expugnare
- expugno in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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