mutilatio

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

mŭtĭlātĭo, ōnis, f. [mutilo],

a maiming, mutilating, mutilation (late Lat.), Cassiod. Var. 10, 28; cf. mutilatio, ἀκρωτηρίασις, Gloss. Philox.