extorqueo
Latin
Etymology
From ex- + torqueō (“twist, wrench”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈstɔr.kʷe.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈst̪ɔr.kʷe.o]
Verb
extorqueō (present infinitive extorquēre, perfect active extorsī, supine extortum); second conjugation
Conjugation
Conjugation of extorqueō (second conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
(See also *extorcĕre.)
- → Catalan: extorquir
- → English: extort
- → French: extorquer
- → Italian: estorcere
- → Portuguese: extorquir
- → Spanish: extorquer
References
- “extorqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extorqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extorqueo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to wrest from a person's hand: ex or de manibus alicui or alicuius extorquere aliquid
- to undeceive a person: alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere
- to wrest weapons from some one's hands: extorquere arma e manibus
- to wrest from a person's hand: ex or de manibus alicui or alicuius extorquere aliquid