contrunco
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contruncare Verb: present passive imperative 2nd singular, Verb: present active infinitive, Verb: present passive indicative 2nd singular of contrunco
con-trunco, āvi, ātum, 1,
- v. a., to cut down or to pieces (ante- and post-class. and very rare): filios, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 51 (975); cf.: inermes et obsistentes, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 61.—Facete: cibum, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 48 (552): offulam grandiorem, Ap. Met. 1, 4, 3; moles palearum, id. ib. 9, 13, 4.
con-trunco, āvī, ātum, āre, zusammenhauen, zerhauen, Plaut. u. Spät.: c. cibum, aufzehren, Plaut.
contruncō, (16) āvī, ātum, āre, tr., couper la tête à plusieurs à la fois : Pl. Bacch. 975 || [fig.] rogner : Pl. St. 554.
- 1. in stukken hakken;
- 2. verslinden [cibum].