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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + carpō (“to pluck, pick, harvest”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dēcerpō (present infinitive dēcerpere, perfect active dēcerpsī, supine dēcerptum); third conjugation
- to pluck, pull; tear, snip or break off
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.255:
- prōtinus haerentem dēcerpsī pollice flōrem
- Immediately, I plucked with thumb the clinging flower.
- to cull
- to gather or crop
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “decerpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decerpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decerpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)