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expio
expio
Latin
Verb
expiō (present infinitive expiāre, perfect active expiāvī, supine expiātum); first conjugation
- I make amends or atonement for a crime or a criminal; atone for, expiate, purge by sacrifice; repair, appease.
- I punish, avenge.
- (of an omen or sign) I avert.
Inflection
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
- expiātōrius
- expiātrīx
- piō
Descendants
References
- expio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- expio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “expio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare
- to appease the manes, make sacrifice for departed souls: manes expiare (Pis. 7. 16)
- to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare