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English
Etymology
From Latin .
Noun
porrigo (countable and uncountable, plural porrigos)
- (medicine, obsolete) Any of various skin diseases.
Latin
Etymology 1
por- (“fore-”) + regō (“direct”)
Pronunciation
Verb
porrigō (present infinitive porrigere, perfect active porrēxī, supine porrēctum); third conjugation
- to stretch, spread out, extend
- Synonyms: extendō, distendō, prōferō, prōlongō, prōtrahō, trahō, explicō, pandō
- to offer, hold out
- Synonyms: offerō, prōferō, sufferō, afferō, polliceor, obiciō, praebeō
Conjugation
Descendants
Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
Noun
porrīgō f (genitive porrīginis); third declension
- dandruff, scurf
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “porrigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “porrigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porrigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to stretch northwards: porrigi ad septentriones
- to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
- to give one's right hand to some one: dextram alicui porrigere, dare