infulcio
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈfʊɫ.ki.ɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈful̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.o]
Verb
[edit]infulciō (present infinitive infulcīre, perfect active infulsī, supine infultum); fourth conjugation
- to cram
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume Tib.53:
- Rursus mori inedia destinanti per vim ore diducto infulciri cibum iussit.
- Trying to put an end to her life by means of starvation, he ordered her mouth to be forced open and cramed with food.
- to foist in, introduce, add
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of infulciō (fourth conjugation)
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: infulcire, infolcire (archaic)
- Neapolitan: nfrucere, ⇒ nfrucecà
- Sicilian: infurgiri, nfurgiri, ⇒ infurgicari, nfurgicari
Further reading
[edit]- “infulcio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infulcio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.