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mulceo
mulceo
Latin
Verb
mulceō (present infinitive mulcēre, perfect active mulsī, supine mulsum); second conjugation
- I stroke, graze, touch or move lightly or gently.
- I make sweet or pleasant.
- (figuratively) I soothe, soften, appease; caress, charm, flatter, delight; alleviate, relieve, mitigate.
Inflection
Note that there is the rare form mulctum for the supine mulsum.
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References
- mulceo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mulceo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mulceo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.