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detrunco

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Latin

Etymology

dē- + truncō (to maim by cutting off)

Pronunciation

Verb

dētruncō (present infinitive dētruncāre, perfect active dētruncāvī, supine dētruncātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to lop off, cut off
  2. (transitive) to mutilate (the body from which a limb is cut off), behead

Conjugation

References

  • 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
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