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eviro

eviro, to emasculate

ē-vĭro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [vir],
  • to deprive of virility, to emasculate, unman, (rare): omnes pueros, Varr. ap. Non. 46, 12: corpus, Cat. 63, 57; Arn. 5, p. 187.—
  • II Transf., to weaken, make faint, deprive of strength: corpore evirato animae substantia turbatur, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 5, 178: emissus (sanguis) rationabiliter relevat, enormiter ablatus evirat vel turbat, Veg. 1, 36, 2; 1, 38, 12.
  • —Hence, ēvĭrātus, a, um, P. a., unmanly, effeminate: eviratior spadone, Mart. 5, 41, 1 (with mollior).

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