refringo
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈfrin.ɡoː/, [rɛˈfrɪŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈfrin.ɡo/, [reˈfriŋɡo]
Verb[edit]
refringō (present infinitive refringere, perfect active refrēgī, supine refrāctum); third conjugation
Conjugation[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: refringir
- Old Francoprovençal: *refreindre
- Franco-Provençal: refreindre, refreígner
- Old French: refraindre
- → Sicilian: rifrànciri
- → Spanish: refringir
References[edit]
- “refringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “refringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- refringo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to destroy a despotism, tyranny: dominationem or dominatum refringere
- to break down the gates: portas refringere
- to destroy a despotism, tyranny: dominationem or dominatum refringere