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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + fīgō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dēfīgō (present infinitive dēfīgere, perfect active dēfīxī, supine dēfīxum); third conjugation
- to stick or thrust (a weapon)
- to fix, plant or embed
- Synonyms: collocō, loco, statuō, pōnō, fīgō, cōnstituō, impōnō, sisto
- to attach or fasten, affix
- Synonyms: colligō, adalligō, cōnfīgō, cōnserō, dēligō, ligō, illigō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, fīgō, vinculō, dēstinō
- Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
- to bewitch or enchant (by sticking pins in a model)
- to focus (eyes or thoughts)
- to dumbfound or astonish, stupefy
- Synonyms: attonō, astupeō, admīror, mīror, obstupēscō, stupēscō, stupeō
- to fix with a glance
Conjugation
References
- “defigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “defigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- defigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to fix all one's thoughts on an object: mentem in aliqua re defigere
- to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
- to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)