expalpo
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ex- (“out of, from”) + palpō (“coax, flatter”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈspal.poː/, [ɛkˈs̠päɫ̪poː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈspal.po/, [ekˈspälpo]
Verb[edit]
expalpō (present infinitive expalpāre, perfect active expalpāvī, supine expalpātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to coax out, obtain by coaxing or flattery
Conjugation[edit]
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References[edit]
- “expalpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- expalpo 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)
- expalpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.