amputes
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. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
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..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...consuetudo simplex. Virgam frugiferae arbori decisam in surculos amputant eosque notis quibusdam discretos super candidam vestem temere..."
