The corpus record — Latin

dĕ-artŭo

dĕ-artŭo · v. a

to dismember, to rend limb by limb

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What it meant

dĕ-artŭo — Lewis & Short

dĕ-artŭo, āvi, ātum, l, v. a.artus; cf. artuatus and artuatim. Lit.,

I to dismember, to rend limb by limb; hence, trop., to ruin: "quasi per artus concidere," Non. 95, 17 (only in the foll. passages): fallaciis opes, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 14: deartuatus sum hujus technis, id. ib. 3, 4, 108; cf. Non. l. l.

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.