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Latin
Etymology
From per- + fundo.
Pronunciation
Verb
perfundō (present infinitive perfundere, perfect active perfūdī, supine perfūsum); third conjugation
- to pour (liquid) over or through; to perfuse
- Synonym: cōnfundō
- to flood or bathe, drench
- Synonyms: rigō, imbuō
- Antonyms: siccō, dūrō
- to imbue, inspire, fill with any thing
- Synonyms: imbuō, īnspīrō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “perfundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perfundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perfundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing makes a pleasant impression on the senses: aliquid sensus iucunditate perfundit
- to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
- to revel in pleasure, be blissfully happy: voluptate perfundi
- to be filled with delight: gaudio perfundi
- to fill the souls of one's audience with devotion: audientium animos religione perfundere (Liv. 10. 388)