induro

induro

1. first-person singular present indicative of indurare

• diurno, durino, duroni, udiron

From in- +‎ dūrō (“harden, endure”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈduː.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈduː.ro]

indūrō (present infinitive indūrāre, perfect active indūrāvī, supine indūrātum); first conjugation

1. (poetic, transitive) to make hard; harden

   Synonym: congelō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.59–60:

     […] in lapidem rictus serpentis apertos
     congelat et patulos, ut erant, indurat hiatus.

     […] he hardens the open jaws of the snake into stone and freezes its gaping mouth, wide open, as it was.

2. (poetic, intransitive) to become hard; harden

   Synonym: congelō

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.366–367:

     […] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
     Interea toto non setius aere ningit.

     […] hoarfrost clings stiff to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.

• indūrātus
• indūrēscō

• “induro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “induro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “induro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.