amputer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amputo, amputare, amputavi, amputatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lop/cut off, prune, shorten; amputate; eradicate, exclude, take away; castrate;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...altum reducetur, sicut rustici proximas vitis radices amputant, quae illam in summum solum ducunt, ut inferiores penitus descendendo..." - P
Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...consuetudo simplex. Virgam frugiferae arbori decisam in surculos amputant eosque notis quibusdam discretos super candidam vestem temere..."