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Latin
Etymology
Based on Ancient Greek ἐξεντερίζω (exenterízō, “eviscerate”), from ἔντερον (énteron, “gut”). Confer ēvīscerō.
Pronunciation
Verb
exenterō (present infinitive exenterāre, perfect active exenterāvī, supine exenterātum); first conjugation
- to disembowel
- to torture, torment
- to empty, gut, remove everything from inside something
Conjugation
References
- “exentero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exentero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “exentero”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 426