exterebro
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ex- + terebrō (“to bore through”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈste.re.broː/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪ɛrɛbroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈste.re.bro/, [ekˈst̪ɛːrebro]
Verb
[edit]exterebrō (present infinitive exterebrāre, supine exterebrātum); first conjugation, no perfect stem
- (transitive) to extract by boring, to bore out
- (transitive, figuratively) to extort
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]- “exterebro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exterebro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers