spolio

See also: spoliò

Italian

Verb

spolio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of spoliare

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Latin

Etymology

From spolium (skin, hide, fell) +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

spoliō (present infinitive spoliāre, perfect active spoliāvī, supine spoliātum); first conjugation

  1. to strip, deprive or rob of covering or clothing, uncover, bare, unclothe
  2. to strip, deprive or rob of arms or equipment, disarm
  3. (by extension) to plunder, pillage, spoil, rob; despoil, impoverish, deprive

Conjugation

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

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Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: spogliare
    • Sicilian: spugghiari
    • Venetan: spoliar, spogiar, spojar
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Proto-Romance: *pīliāre (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:

References

  • spolio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • spolio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • spolio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to depose a king: aliquem regno spoliare or expellere (Div. 1. 22. 74)