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Verb
expio
- first-person singular present indicative of expiar
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of, from”) + piō (“appease; expiate; avenge”).
Pronunciation
Verb
expiō (present infinitive expiāre, perfect active expiāvī, supine expiātum); first conjugation
- to make amends or atonement for a crime or a criminal; atone for, expiate, purge by sacrifice; repair, appease
- Synonym: luo
- to punish, avenge
- Synonyms: castīgō, multō, pūniō, mulctō, obiūrgō, animadvertō, moneō, ulcīscor, plēctō, exsequor
- (of an omen or sign) to avert
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References
- “expio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare
- to appease the manes, make sacrifice for departed souls: manes expiare (Pis. 7. 16)