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defigo
defigo
Latin
Verb
dēfīgō (present infinitive dēfīgere, perfect active dēfīxī, supine dēfīxum); third conjugation
- I stick or thrust (a weapon)
- I fasten, fix, plant or embed
- I attach or affix
- I bewitch or enchant (by sticking pins in a model)
- I focus (eyes or thoughts)
- I dumbfound or astonish
- I fix with a glance
Inflection
References
- defigo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- defigo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “defigo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to fix all one's thoughts on an object: mentem in aliqua re defigere
- to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
- to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
- to fix all one's thoughts on an object: mentem in aliqua re defigere