deterioro

ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dētĕrĭōro: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. deterior,
I to make worse, to deteriorate (late Lat.), Claud. Mam. de Statu an. 1, 3 al.

dētĕrĭōrō, āre (deterior), tr., détériorer, gâter : Mamert. An. 1, 3 ; res deteriorata Symm. Ep. 4, 69, chose détériorée.

dēteriōro, āvī, āre (deterior), minder gut machen, herunterbringen, verschlechtern, Ascon. Hor. carm. 1, 35, 16 u. Eccl.