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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of expoliō.
Participle
expolītus (feminine expolīta, neuter expolītum, comparative expolītior); first/second-declension participle
- polished
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “expolitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expolitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expolitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have attained to a high degree of culture: omni vita atque victu excultum atque expolitum esse (Brut. 25. 95)