The corpus record — Latin

eviro

eviro · v. a

to deprive of virility

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ē-vĭro — Lewis & Short

ē-vĭro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.vir,

I to deprive of virility, to emasculate, unman, (rare): omnes pueros, Varr. ap. Non. 46, 12: corpus, Cat. 63, 57; Arn. 5, p. 187.—

II Transf., to weaken, make faint, deprive of strength: corpore evirato animae substantia turbatur, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 5, 178: emissus (sanguis) rationabiliter relevat, enormiter ablatus evirat vel turbat, Veg. 1, 36, 2; 1, 38, 12.—Hence, ēvĭrātus, a, um, P. a., unmanly, effeminate: eviratior spadone, Mart. 5, 41, 1 (with mollior).

In the wild

evirastis Catullus, Carmina long_poems.63.17
eviratior Martial, Epigrammata 5.41.1

Where it came from

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