affligo
Latin
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /afˈfliː.ɡoː/
Verb
afflīgō (present infinitive afflīgere, perfect active afflīxī, supine afflīctum); third conjugation
- I strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate.
- I afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin.
- I humble, weaken or vex.
- I overthrow.
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References
- affligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- affligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be the victim of misfortune: calamitatibus affligi
- to bring a man to ruin; to destroy: aliquem affligere, perdere, pessumdare, in praeceps dare
- their spirits are broken: animus frangitur, affligitur, percellitur, debilitatur
- to be the victim of misfortune: calamitatibus affligi
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