The corpus record — Latin

detrunco

cut off

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

dē-trunco — Lewis & Short

dē-trunco, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to lop or cut off (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Prop.: arbores, Liv. 21, 37: superiorem partem, Col. 5, 6, 13: alam regi apium, Plin. 11, 17, 17, § 54: caput, Ov. M. 8, 770 al. —

II Transf. to the body from which a member is cut off, to mutilate, maim, behead: gladio detruncata corpora bracchiis abscisis, Liv. 31, 34: aliquem, Val. Fl. 3, 145; cf.: Dalmatas incensa urbe quasi detruncaverat, Flor. 4, 12, 11.

Where it came from

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