dilapido

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dī-lăpĭdo, āre, v. a., lit., to scatter like stones; hence,

to throw away, squander, to consume (very rare): nostras triginta minas, Ter. Phorm. 897; cf. facultates, Firm. Math. 6, 10: grandine hominumque boumque labores, to destroy , Col. 10, 330.

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