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Latin
Etymology
From sub- + rēpō.
Pronunciation
Verb
surrēpō (present infinitive surrēpere, perfect active surrēpsī, supine surrēptum); third conjugation
- to creep under or along, to come upon unawares
c. 1500,
Celio Calcagnini,
Epitoma Quod animalium cura data sit Prometheo ac Epimetheo:
- Armavit nonnulla, inermibus etiam aliquod ad salutem munimentum excogitavit: quae nam exiguo corpore clauserat, partim per aerem pennis attolli, partim per terram surrepere iussit; quae vero in amplam molem auxerat, crassitudine sua roboravit; mox ea ut calorem et frigus facile perferrent pilis, setis, pellibusque vestivit; pedes etiam qui corpora sustinerent, ungulis callisque obduravit.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to slide under
- (transitive or intransitive) to insinuate oneself into
Conjugation
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References
- “surrepo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- surrepo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.