transverbero
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [trãːsˈwɛr.bɛ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪ranzˈvɛr.be.ro]
Verb
trānsverberō (present infinitive trānsverberāre, perfect active trānsverberāvī, supine trānsverberātum); first conjugation
- to strike through, pierce through; to transfix
- Augustine, Confessiones, 5.17:
- non itaque video quomodo sanaretur, si mea talis illa mors transverberasset viscera dilectionis eius.
- Thus I cannot see how she should have been healed, if such a death for me had pierced through the organs of her love.
- non itaque video quomodo sanaretur, si mea talis illa mors transverberasset viscera dilectionis eius.
- Augustine, Confessiones, 5.17:
Conjugation
Conjugation of trānsverberō (first conjugation)
References
- “transverbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transverbero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transverbero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.