scalpite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →scalpo, scalpere, scalpsi, scalptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
scratch, draw nails across (itch/affection); dig out (w/nails); carve/engrave;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- D
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...quales, umbriferos ubi pandit Thabraca saltus, in uetula scalpit iam mater simia bucca. plurima sunt iuuenum discrimina, pulchrior..." - G
Domitianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...condemnavitque. Ac dum exulceratam in fronte verrucam vehementius scalpit, profluente sanguine, "Vtinam," inquit, "hactenus." Tunc horas requirenti..."