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Latin
Etymology
From ad- (“towards”) + saliō (“to jump”).
Pronunciation
Verb
assiliō (present infinitive assilīre, perfect active assiluī, supine assultum); fourth conjugation, third person-only in the passive
- (intransitive) to spring or leap (to or upon); rush (at)
- Synonyms: saliō, trānsiliō, prōsiliō, exsiliō, īnsultō, exsultō
- (intransitive, of water) to dash (against)
- (transitive) to assail, assault
- Synonyms: invādō, incurrō, impetō, aggredior, oppugnō, īnstō, excurrō, concurrō, occurrō, petō, accēdō, intrō, incēdō, inruō, irrumpō, adorior, adeō, opprimō, accurrō, incidō, appetō, arripiō, incessō, invehō, lacessō
- Antonyms: repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō
- (transitive) to cover (to mate with, to fuck, said chiefly of animals)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
(See assaliō.)
References
- “assilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- assilio in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- assilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Blondeau, Pierre Nicolas, and Noel, François. Dictionarium eroticum latino-gallicum. France, I. Liseaux, 1885.