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  • 1 castrō

        castrō āvī, ātus, āre,    to emasculate, Iu., Cu.— Fig., to enervate: rem p. (censured as low by C.).
    * * *
    castrare, castravi, castratus V
    castrate, emasculate/unman; spay (animal); dock (tail); diminish/impair/weaken

    Latin-English dictionary > castrō

  • 2 effēminō

        effēminō āvī, ātus, āre    [ex + femina], to make feminine, represent as feminine: eum (aërem).— Fig., to make womanish, effeminate, enervate: virum dolore: corpus, S.: animos, Cs.
    * * *
    effeminare, effeminavi, effeminatus V
    weaken, enervate, make effeminate, emasculate, unman

    Latin-English dictionary > effēminō

  • 3 eunucho

    eunūcho, āre, v. a. [eunuchus], to make a eunuch of, to unman: se, Varr. ap. Non. 106, 8.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > eunucho

  • 4 eviro

    ē-vĭro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [vir], 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).

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > eviro

  • 5 mollio

    mollĭo, īvi and ii, ītum, 4 (mollibat for molliebat, Att. ap. Non. 347, 16; Ov. M. 6, 21:

    mollirier for molliri,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 27), v. a. [mollis], to make soft, pliant, flexible, or supple, to soften (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    frigoribus durescit umor, et idem vicissim mollitur tepefactus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26:

    lanam trahendo,

    by spinning, Ov. M. 2, 411:

    artus oleo,

    Liv. 21, 55:

    dum ferrum molliat ignis,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 20:

    ceram,

    Ov. M. 8, 198:

    semina,

    id. ib. 7, 123:

    humum foliis,

    id. ib. 4, 741:

    glebas,

    id. ib. 6, 220:

    ventrem,

    to relax, purge moderately, Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 43:

    duritias,

    id. 28, 17, 70, § 34:

    agri molliti,

    softened, loosened, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 130.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To soften, moderate, mitigate; to tame, restrain, check; to render easier, lighter, pleasanter, or less disagreeable:

    Hannibalem juveniliter exsultantem patientiā suā molliebat,

    Cic. Sen. 4, 10: quā mons mollibat mare, broke the violence of the sea, Att. ap. Non. 347, 16:

    iras,

    Liv. 1, 9:

    impetum,

    id. 3, 35:

    indocili numero cum grave mollit opus,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 6:

    poenam,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 53:

    clivum,

    to make the ascent of a hill easier, Caes. B. G. 7, 46:

    clivos,

    Liv. 21, 37, 3:

    verba usu,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 95:

    translationem,

    id. de Or. 3, 41, 165:

    fructus feros colendo,

    to render milder, Verg. G. 2, 36:

    caelum,

    Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 124:

    lacrimae meorum me interdum molliunt,

    overcome me, Cic. Att. 10, 9, 2:

    Deus mollivit cor meum,

    softened, Vulg. Job, 23, 16.—
    B.
    To soften, render effeminate or unmanly:

    legionem,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8:

    animos,

    id. Tusc. 2, 11, 27: vocem, to make soft or womanish, Quint. 11, 3, 24:

    puerum,

    to unman, Stat. S. 3, 4, 68.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > mollio

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