effrico
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈef.fri.koː/, [ˈɛf.frɪ.koː]
Verb
effricō (present infinitive effricāre, perfect active effrixī, supine effricātum); first conjugation
- ; (post-Augustan, transitive, rare)
- (literally) I rub off or out
- (figuratively) I scrub clean of accumulated débris
- circa AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter xcv, § 36:
- Illis autem hebetibus et optusis aut mala consuetudine obsessis diu robigo animorum effricanda est.
- circa AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter xcv, § 36:
Conjugation
Descendants
- Portuguese: esfregar
References
- effrĭco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- effrĭco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 575/3
- “effricō” on page 592/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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