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induro
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See also: indurò
Italian
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induro
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪnˈduː.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈduː.ro]
Verb
indūrō (present infinitive indūrāre, perfect active indūrāvī, supine indūrātum); first conjugation
- (poetic, transitive) to make hard; harden
- Synonym: congelō
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.59–60:
- […] in lapidem rictus serpentis apertos
congelat et patulos, ut erant, indurat hiatus.- […] he hardens the open jaws of the snake into stone and freezes its gaping mouth, wide open, as it was.
- […] in lapidem rictus serpentis apertos
- (poetic, intransitive) to become hard; harden
- Synonym: congelō
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References
- “induro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “induro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “induro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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