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exustus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of exūrō.

Participle

exustus (feminine exusta, neuter exustum); first/second-declension participle

  1. burnt, burned down, having burned
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.5:
      Persuādent Rauracīs et Tulingīs et Latobrīgīs, fīnitimīs suīs, utī eōdem ūsī cōnsiliō — oppidīs suīs vīcīsque exūstīs — ūnā cum eīs proficīscantur, [] .
      They persuaded the Rauraci, the Tulingi, and the Latobrigi, their neighbors, to adopt the same plan — with their own towns and villages burned down — so that they could set out together with them.
  2. consumed by fire
  3. dried up

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • exustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exustus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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