The corpus record — Latin

exdorsuo

exdorsuo · v. a

to take out the backbone

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Where it lives

Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k

What it meant

ex-dorsŭo — Lewis & Short

ex-dorsŭo or -dorso, āre, v. a.dorsum; lit., to deprive of the back; hence, in partic., of fishes,

I to take out the backbone, to bone (ante- and post-class.): congrum, muraenam exdorsua, quantum potes, Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 2: pisces (with desquamare), App. Mag. p. 301, 3; cf.: exdorsuare, dorso nudare, Non. 17, 29: exdorsua dorsum confringe; alii, exime, Paul. ex Fest. p. 79, 12 Müll.

In the wild

exdorsua Plautus, Aulularia 2.9

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. exdorsuo (scan p. 208; entry #3234).

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