fodio
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to pierce, dig”) (root possibly lacking e-grade).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfo.di.oː/, [ˈfɔd̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.di.o/, [ˈfɔːd̪io]
Verb
fodiō (present infinitive fodere, perfect active fōdī, supine fossum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I dig (up, out or around); bury; dig or clear out the earth from a place; mine, quarry.
- (figuratively) I prick, prod, pierce, thrust, jab, stab, wound.
- (figuratively) I goad, sting, disturb.
Conjugation
Note that the present passive infinitive is sometimes written as fodirī instead of fodī
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References
- “fodio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fodio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fodio 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)
- fodio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN