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Italian
Verb
effemino
- first-person singular present indicative of effeminare
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ex- + fēmina + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
effēminō (present infinitive effēmināre, perfect active effēmināvī, supine effēminātum); first conjugation
- to weaken or enervate
- Synonyms: dēterō, atterō, minuō, frangō, tenuō, cōnsūmō, afficiō
- Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō
- to make feminine or emasculate
- Synonym: molliō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “effemino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effemino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effemino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.