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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ex- + stirps + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
exstirpō (present infinitive exstirpāre, perfect active exstirpāvī, supine exstirpātum); first conjugation
- to uproot, root out
- Synonym: ērādīcō
- to eradicate, extirpate
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References
- “exstirpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exstirpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exstirpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to stifle, repress all humane sentiments in one's mind: omnem humanitatem ex animo exstirpare (Amic. 13. 48)
- to eradicate vice: vitia exstirpare et funditus tollere
- to eradicate passion from the mind: animi perturbationes exstirpare