excerno
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of, from”) + cernō (“separate, sift; discern”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛksˈkɛr.noː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eksˈt͡ʃɛr.no]
Verb
excernō (present infinitive excernere, perfect active excrēvī, supine excrētum); third conjugation
- to sift out, separate
- to keep apart, keep away
- to accumulate, proliferate
- Litium series excreverant.
- A succession of lawsuits had accumulated.
- (of the body) to excrete, carry off, discharge
Conjugation
Conjugation of excernō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: excrete, excern
- French: excréter, écerner
- Italian: escretare, scernere
- Portuguese: excretar
- Spanish: excretar
References
- “excerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excerno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.