Latin

Alternative forms

• extirpō

Verb

exstirpō ‎(present infinitive exstirpāre, perfect active exstirpāvī, supine exstirpātum); first conjugation

1. I uproot, root out
2. I eradicate, extirpate

Inflection

Descendants

References

• exstirpo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exstirpo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exstirpo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to stifle, repress all humane sentiments in one's mind: omnem humanitatem ex animo exstirpare (Amic. 13. 48)
    
  • to eradicate vice: vitia exstirpare et funditus tollere
    
  • to eradicate passion from the mind: animi perturbationes exstirpare