verb transitive

con-trunco

2nd PP con-truncāre · 3rd PP con-truncāvi · 4th PP con-truncātum · conj. 1st

to cut down; to pieces ••

v. a., to cut down or to pieces (ante- and post-class. and very rare): filios, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 51; cf.: inermes et obsistentes, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 61.—Facete: cibum, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 48: offulam grandiorem, App. M. 1, p. 103, 35: moles palearum, id. ib. 9, p. 222, 37.

Perseus ID: n10916 Key: contrunco