sequestro

• IPA^(key): /seˈkwɛs.tro/
• Rhymes: -ɛstro
• Hyphenation: se‧què‧stro

Borrowed from Latin sequestrum (“depository”), derived from sequester (“mediator, trustee”).

sequestro m (plural sequestri)

1. confiscation
2. sequestration
3. kidnapping
4. (pathology) sequestrum
5. abduction

• ratto m

• sequestrare
• sequestratore

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sequestro

1. first-person singular present indicative of sequestrare

Derived from sequestrum (“depository”) +‎ -ō, derived from sequester (“mediator, trustee”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈkʷɛs.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈkʷɛs.t̪ro]

sequestrō (present infinitive sequestrāre, perfect active sequestrāvī, supine sequestrātum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) to surrender (give up for safe keeping)
2. (Late Latin) to sequestrate
3. (Late Latin) to separate, remove

• “sequestro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sequestro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• seqüestro (Brazil, obsolete)

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /sɛ.ˈkwɛʃ.tɾʊ/
• Hyphenation: se‧ques‧tro

Borrowed from Latin sequestrum (“depository”), derived from sequester (“mediator, trustee”).

sequestro m (plural sequestros)

1. kidnapping (the crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom)

   Synonyms: rapto, (Brazil) abdução

• sequestro-relâmpago

• sequestração
• sequestrado
• sequestrador
• sequestrar
• sequestrável

sequestro

1. first-person singular present indicative of sequestrar

sequestro

1. first-person singular present indicative of sequestrar