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surrepo
surrepo
Latin
Verb
surrēpō (present infinitive surrēpere, perfect active surrēpsī, supine surrēptum); third conjugation
- I creep under or along
- c. 1500, Celio Calcagnini, Epitoma Quod animalium cura data sit Prometheo ac Epimetheo
- Armavit nonnulla, inermibus etiam aliquod ad salutem munimentum excogitavit: quae nam exiguo corpore clauserat, partim per aerem pennis attolli, partim per terram surrepere iussit; quae vero in amplam molem auxerat, crassitudine sua roboravit; mox ea ut calorem et frigus facile perferrent pilis, setis, pellibusque vestivit; pedes etiam qui corpora sustinerent, ungulis callisque obduravit.
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Inflection
References
- surrepo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “surrepo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.