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glubo
glubo
Latin
Verb
glūbō (present infinitive glūbere, perfect active glūpsī, supine glūptum); third conjugation
- (literally) I strip the bark from a tree, I peel, I shuck
- (vulgar) I peel back the foreskin of, I "shuck" the **** (Catullus infamously used "glubit" in this obscene sense in Catullus 58: "Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis/glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes" - "Now in the crossroads and alleyways/she peels the grandsons of brave Remus")
Inflection
References
- glubo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- glubo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “glubo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill