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Latin
Etymology
From noverca (“stepmother”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
novercor (present infinitive novercārī, perfect active novercātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (with dative, with in + accusative, Late Latin, Medieval Latin) to act the stepmother to, to treat with harshness
12th century CE, Walter Map,
De nugis curialium 19:
- cui nunquam temerāria praesūmptiō novercāta est, cum in omne perīculum quasi caecus irruerit
12th century CE, Peter of Blois,
Carmina 1.3.8:
- rosae rubor suīs audet
nōdīs explicārī,
aquilōnem sibi gaudet
jam nōn novercārī.
Conjugation
References
- novercor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- novercor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “novercor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “novercari”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC