effrico
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Formed by the prefixation of ex- + fricō, the x being assimilated to the following f.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛf.frɪ.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛf.fri.ko]
Verb
effricō (present infinitive effricāre, perfect active effrixī, supine effricātum); first conjugation (rare, post-Augustan, transitive)
- (literally) to rub off or out
- (figuratively) to scrub clean of accumulated débris
- circa AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter xcv, § 36:
- Illis autem hebetibus et optusis aut mala consuetudine obsessis diu robigo animorum effricanda est.
- circa AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter xcv, § 36:
Conjugation
Conjugation of effricō (first conjugation)
Descendants
References
- “effrĭco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- effrĭco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 575/3.
- “effricō” on page 592/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)