Italian

Verb

spolio

1. first-person singular present indicative of spoliare

Latin

Etymology

From spolium ‎(“skin, hide, fell”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspo.li.oː/, [ˈspɔ.li.oː]

Verb

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

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

Inflection

Synonyms

• (deprive): adimō, dēconciliō, exuō, orbō, prīvō, viduō

Derived terms

Related terms

• spoliārium
• spoliātrīx
• spolium

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spolio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to depose a king: aliquem regno spoliare or expellere (Div. 1. 22. 74)