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Latin
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Etymology
From ad- + flīgō (“strike down”).
Pronunciation
Verb
afflīgō (present infinitive afflīgere, perfect active afflīxī, supine afflīctum); third conjugation
- to strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate
- Synonyms: ferio, tango, percutio, pello, discutio, pulsō, accido, percello, impingo, ico, verbero
- to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin
- Synonyms: afficiō, diruo, profligo, tollo, accido
- to humble, weaken or vex
- to overthrow
- Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, pervertō, ēvertō, sternō, prōsternō, fundō, versō, vertō, dissipō
Conjugation
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
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References
- “affligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- affligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be the victim of misfortune: calamitatibus affligi
- to bring a man to ruin; to destroy: aliquem affligere, perdere, pessumdare, in praeceps dare
- their spirits are broken: animus frangitur, affligitur, percellitur, debilitatur