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rodo
rodo
Italian
Verb
rodo
- first-person singular present indicative of rodare
- first-person singular present indicative of rodere
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *rōd- (see also rōstrum), contracted o-grade form of *reh₁d- (“to gnaw, scrape, scratch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈroː.doː/
Verb
rōdō (present infinitive rōdere, perfect active rōsī, supine rōsum); third conjugation
- I gnaw, nibble, bite; eat or waste away, corrode, consume; erode.
- (figuratively) I slander, disparage, backbite.
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References
- rodo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rodo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rodo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.