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Italian
Verb
compungo
- first-person singular present indicative of compungere
Latin
Etymology
From con- + pungō.
Pronunciation
Verb
compungō (present infinitive compungere, perfect active compūnxī, supine compūnctum); third conjugation
- to prick or puncture
- to goad or stimulate
- to tattoo (mark with points)
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “compungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.