The corpus record — Latin

dĕ-ascĭo

dĕ-ascĭo · v. a

to hew

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What it meant

dĕ-ascĭo — Lewis & Short

dĕ-ascĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.1, ascio,

I to hew or cut with an axe, to smoothe.

I Lit. (late Lat.): deasciato stipiti, wrought, smoothed, Prud. stef. 10, 381.—

B To rub out, efface: hunc titulum, Murat. Inscr. 1203, 9.—

II Trop.: aliquem, to cheat, to chouse (cf. abrado), Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 11.

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.