elimo

From ē- +‎ limō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

ēlīmō (present infinitive ēlīmāre, perfect active ēlīmāvī, supine ēlīmātum); first conjugation

1. to file (off)
2. to polish
3. (figurative) to cultivate, perfect, elaborate
   • Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii Bucolica commentarii:

     Bucolica, ut ferunt, dicta sunt ā custōdibus boum, id est ἀπὸ τῶν βουκόλων: praecipua enim sunt animālia apud rūsticōs bovēs. Huius autem carminis orīgō varia est. Nam aliī dīcunt eō tempore, quō Xerxēs, Persārum rēx, invāsit Graeciam, cum omnēs intrā mūrōs latērent nec possent mōre solitō Diānae sacra persolvī, pervēnisse ad montēs Lacōnās rūsticōs et in eius honōrem hymnōs dīxisse: unde nātum carmen bucolicum aetās posterior ēlīmāvit.

     Bucolics, as they say, are called after the keepers of oxen, that is, ἀπὸ τῶν βουκόλων: for oxen are distinguished animals for country-dwellers. The origin of this kind of poem is disputed. For others say that in the times when Xerxes, the king of the Persians, invaded Greece, when everybody was hiding between walls and couldn't fulfil their religious duties to Diana, Laconas made it to the mountains in the countryside and said hymns in her honour: the coming age refined the bucolic poem created therefrom.

4. to lessen or diminish

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “elimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “elimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.