The corpus record — Latin

effrico

effrico · v. a

to rub off

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ef-frĭco — Lewis & Short

ef-frĭco, xi (ātum, 1, v. a.,

Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 12),

I to rub off or out (post-Aug. and very rare).

I Lit.: sordium enormem illuviem operose, App. M. 1, p. 105, 9: calices, id. ib. 4, p. 145, 31: spicas decerptas, Tert. l. l.—

II Trop.: rubigo animorum effricanda est, Sen. Ep. 95, 37.

In the wild

effricanda Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.36
effrico Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.7.p2

Where it came from

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

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