spolio
See also: spoliò
Italian
Verb
spolio
- first-person singular present indicative of spoliare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From spolium (“skin, hide, fell”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspɔ.li.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɔː.li.o]
Verb
spoliō (present infinitive spoliāre, perfect active spoliāvī, supine spoliātum); first conjugation
- to strip, deprive or rob of covering or clothing, uncover, bare, unclothe
- to strip, deprive or rob of arms or equipment, disarm
- (by extension) to plunder, pillage, spoil, rob; despoil, impoverish, deprive
Conjugation
Conjugation of spoliō (first conjugation)
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- spoliārium
- spoliātrīx
- spolium
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: espoillier
- → English: spoil
- Old French: espoillier
- 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)
- to depose a king: aliquem regno spoliare or expellere (Div. 1. 22. 74)