lorico
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /loːˈriː.koː/, [ɫ̪oːˈriːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /loˈri.ko/, [loˈriːko]
Verb
lōrīcō (present infinitive lōrīcāre, perfect active lōrīcāvī, supine lōrīcātum); first conjugation
- to armour (someone) with a lōrīca
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- AD 77–79, C. Plinius Secundus (aut.), K.F.T. Mayhoff (ed.), Naturalis Historia (1906), bk VIII, ch. xxxix:
- mergit se limo saepius siccatque sole, mox ubi pluribus eodem modo se coriis loricavit, in dimicationem pergit.
- (transferred sense) to cover (something) with a coating, to plaster
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Conjugation
Descendants
- English: loricate
References
- “lōrīco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Loricare in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lōrīco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 922/1.
- “lōrīcō” on page 1,044/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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