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Latin
Etymology
semi- + rutus
Pronunciation
Adjective
sēmirutus (feminine sēmiruta, neuter sēmirutum); first/second-declension adjective
- half-demolished
59 BC–AD 17,
Titus Livius,
Ab urba condita 5.49.4:
- īnstruit deinde aciem, ut locī nātūra patiēbātur, in sēmirutae solō urbis et nātūrā inaequālī, et omnia, quae arte bellī secundā suīs ēligī praeparārīve poterant, prōvīdit.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “semirutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “semirutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- semirutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.