vĭdŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [viduus], to deprive, bereave of any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I In gen.: civibus urbem, Verg. A. 8, 571: ornos foliis, Hor. C. 2, 9, 8: arva pruinis, Verg. G. 4, 518: vitem pristino alimento, Col. Arb. 1, 4: regna (Plutonis) lumine, Sil. 3, 601: dexteram ense, Sen. Hippol. 866: penates, Stat. Th. 3, 385: maritum amplexibus, Ap. Met. 4, 27, 7. —With gen.: architectus ingeni viduatus, Vitr. 5, 7, 7: orba pedum partim, manuum viduata vicissim, Lucr. 5, 840.—
II In partic.: vĭdŭāta , ae, adj. f. , bereft of her husband , widowed : Agrippina viduata morte Domitii, Suet. Galb. 5; cf. Mart. 9, 31, 6; Tac. A. 16, 30: conjux viduata taedis, i. e. divorced , Sen. Med. 581.