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Latin
Etymology
From in- + fīgō.
Pronunciation
Verb
īnfīgō (present infinitive īnfīgere, perfect active īnfīxī, supine īnfīxum); third conjugation
- to fasten, fix, implant
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “infigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to plunge one's sword in some one's breast: gladium alicui in pectus infigere