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induro

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See also: indurò

Italian

Verb

induro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of indurare

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Latin

Etymology

    From in- + dūrō (harden, endure).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    indūrō (present infinitive indūrāre, perfect active indūrāvī, supine indūrātum); first conjugation

    1. (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.
    2. (poetic, intransitive) to become hard; harden
      Synonym: congelō
      • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.366–367:
        [] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
        Interea toto non setius aere ningit.
        [] hoarfrost clings stiff to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.

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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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