transverbero
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
trānsverberō (present infinitive trānsverberāre, perfect active trānsverberāvī, supine trānsverberātum); first conjugation
- I strike through, pierce through; I transfix
- Augustine, Confessiones, 5.17:
- non itaque video quomodo sanaretur, si mea talis illa mors transverberasset viscera dilectionis eius.
- Thus I cannot see how she should have been healed, if such a death for me had pierced through the organs of her love.
- non itaque video quomodo sanaretur, si mea talis illa mors transverberasset viscera dilectionis eius.
- Augustine, Confessiones, 5.17:
Inflection[edit]
References[edit]
- transverbero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- transverbero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transverbero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette