The corpus record — Latin

abligurrio

abligurrio · v. a

To lick away

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

ab-lĭgūrrĭo — Lewis & Short

ab-lĭgūrrĭo (-gurio), īvi, ītum, 4, v. a.

I To lick away, waste or spend in luxurious indulgence: bona, Enn. ap. Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 25 (Sat. 29 Vahl.); Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4: patrimonium, App. Mag. p. 313 (but in Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10, the correct read. is obligaverunt).—

II In mal. part., Suet. Gram. 23.

In the wild

abligurribam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.14
abligurriuit Apuleius, Apologia 59

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.