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adedo
adedo
Latin
Verb
adedō (present infinitive adedere, perfect active adēdī, supine adēsum); third conjugation
- I begin to eat, bite, nibble (at), gnaw.
- I consume entirely, eat up.
- (figuratively) I exhaust, wear down; scorch; erode; squander.
Inflection
Note that the perfect active indicative third person singular, adēdit has the alternative form adest
Related terms
References
- adedo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adedo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adedo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.