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Latin
Etymology
From iugulum.
Pronunciation
Noun
iugulo
- dative/ablative singular of iugulum
Verb
iugulō (present infinitive iugulāre, perfect active iugulāvī, supine iugulātum); first conjugation
- to slay, kill, slit the throat of
- Synonyms: necō, caedō, interficiō, trucīdō, tollō, peragō, percutiō, interimō, perimō, obtruncō, cōnficiō, occīdō, ēnecō, sōpiō, dēiciō, absūmō, cōnsūmō
- Horace, Epistulae, Book I, Epistle II
- Ut iugulent hominem, surgunt dē nocte latrōnēs.
- Brigands rise at night, that they may cut the throats of men.
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “iugulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers