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transverbero

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Latin

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Etymology

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From trāns- +‎ verberō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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trānsverberō (present infinitive trānsverberāre, perfect active trānsverberāvī, supine trānsverberātum); first conjugation

  1. to strike through, pierce through; to 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.

Conjugation

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References

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  • 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.