contrunco
From LSJ
ἄνθρωπός ἐστι πνεῦμα καὶ σκιὰ μόνον → human being is only a breath and a shadow, man is but a breath and a shadow
Latin > English
contrunco contruncare, contruncavi, contruncatus V TRANS :: hack/cut down/to pieces; gobble up, dispatch (food)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
con-trunco: āvi, ātum, 1,
I v. a., to cut down or to pieces (ante- and post-class. and very rare): filios, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 51; cf.: inermes et obsistentes, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 61.—Facete: cibum, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 48: offulam grandiorem, App. M. 1, p. 103, 35: moles palearum, id. ib. 9, p. 222, 37.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
contruncō,¹⁶ āvī, ātum, āre, tr., couper la tête à plusieurs à la fois : Pl. Bacch. 975 || [fig.] rogner : Pl. St. 554.
Latin > German (Georges)
con-trunco, āvī, ātum, āre, zusammenhauen, zerhauen, Plaut. u. Spät.: c. cibum, aufzehren, Plaut.
