effrico

== Latin == === Alternative forms === exfricō === Etymology === Formed by the prefixation of ex- +‎ fricō, the x being assimilated to the following f. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛf.frɪ.koː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛf.fri.ko] === Verb === effricō (present infinitive effricāre, perfect active effrixī, supine effricātum); first conjugation (rare, post-Augustan, transitive) (literally) to rub off or out (figuratively) to scrub clean of accumulated débris circa AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter xcv, § 36: Illis autem hebetibus et optusis aut mala consuetudine obsessis diu robigo animorum effricanda est. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “effrĭco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “effrĭco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 575/3. “effricō” on page 592/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)