Latin

Alternative forms

• exfricō

Verb

effricō ‎(present infinitive effricāre, perfect active effrixī, supine effricātum); first conjugation

(post-Augustan, transitive, rare)

1. (literally) I rub off or out
2. (figuratively) I scrub clean of accumulated débris
   • circa AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter xcv, § 36:

     Illis autem hebetibus et optusis aut mala consuetudine obsessis diu robigo animorum effricanda est.

Conjugation

Descendants

• Portuguese: esfregar

References

• effrĭco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “effrĭco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 575/3.
• “effricō” on page 592/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)