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  • IPA(key): /diʃˈʃɛr.po/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrpo
  • Hyphenation: di‧scèr‧po

discerpo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of discerpere

From dis- +‎ carpō.

discerpō (present infinitive discerpere, perfect active discerpsī, supine discerptum); third conjugation

  1. to pluck or tear to pieces; to rend, mutilate or mangle
    Synonyms: amputō, dīscindō, scindō, findō, carpō, discīdō, incīdō, intercīdō, distrahō, putō
    Antonyms: cōgō, congerō, coniungō, contrahō
  • discerpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • discerpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • discerpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.