suppernatus

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

sup-pernātus (subp-), a, um, adj. [perna],

lamed in the hip : suppernati dicuntur, quibus femina sunt succisa, in modum suillarum pernarum. Ennius in Annalibus: is pernas succidit iniquā superbiā Poeni. Et Catullus (17, 19) alnus suppernata securi, cut down , Fest. p. 305 Müll.; cf. p. 304 ib.

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