erutus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of ēruō.

Participle

ērutus (feminine ēruta, neuter ērutum); first/second-declension participle

  1. cast or thrown out
  2. dug, torn or plucked out
  3. rooted up, uprooted, dug out, taken
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.351–352:
      nam sata vērē novō tenēris lactentia sulcīs
      ēruta saetigerae comperit ōre suīs.
      For in the early part of the spring she found that the crops of corn, swelling with their young milky juice,
      were rooted up by the snout of the bristly swine.

      1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 24.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

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