exscreo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛks(ː)kre.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛks.skre.o]
Verb
exscreō (present infinitive exscreāre, perfect active exscreāvī, supine exscreātum); first conjugation
- (ambitransitive) to cough up, to spit out by coughing, hawk
- 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.73:
- caules eorum teneri tunduntur exprimiturque sucus, mox sole cogitur in crassitudinem mellis; singulari remedio contra mala oris oculorumque, sanguinem exscreantes, anginas, vulvas, sedes, coeliacos intellegitur potus aut inlitus.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- caules eorum teneri tunduntur exprimiturque sucus, mox sole cogitur in crassitudinem mellis; singulari remedio contra mala oris oculorumque, sanguinem exscreantes, anginas, vulvas, sedes, coeliacos intellegitur potus aut inlitus.
- 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita Neronis 24:
- In certando vero ita legi oboediebat, ut numquam exscreare ausus sudorem quoque frontis brachio detegeret; […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- In certando vero ita legi oboediebat, ut numquam exscreare ausus sudorem quoque frontis brachio detegeret; […]
Conjugation
Conjugation of exscreō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- exscreātiō / excreātiō
Descendants
- → English: excreate
References
- “exscreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exscreo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.