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labefacio
labefacio
Latin
Verb
labefaciō (present infinitive labefacere, perfect active labefēcī, supine labefactum); third conjugation iō-variant, irregular passive voice
- I cause to totter, shake, loosen, make ready to fall.
- (figuratively, of a person's mind) I cause to waver, shake, weaken.
- (figuratively) I weaken; overthrow, ruin, destroy.
Inflection
- The verb has an irregular conjugation as for the passive voice.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: labefy
References
- labefacio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- labefacio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “labefacio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.