rodo

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

rōdō sī, sus, ere

1 RAD-, to gnaw : clipeos (mures): dente pollicem, H.: saxa capellae, O.— To eat away, waste away, corrode, consume : ferrum (robigo), O.—Fig., to backbite, slander, disparage : in conviviis rodunt: libertino patre natum, H.