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porceo.

to keep or ward off or back, hinder, restrain

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈpoːr.ke.oː]Classical-Latin[ˈpɔr.ke.oː]Classical-Latin[ˈpɔr.t͡ʃe.o]
  1. to keep or ward off or back, hinder, restrain

    archaic · conjugation-2 · no-perfect
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Latin po- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *h₂orkéyeti Proto-Italic *arkeō Latin arceō Latin pō̆rceō By surface analysis, po- + arceō. However, there is an exact parallel in Proto-Germanic *fargijaną (“to push down”), perhaps hinting at a Proto-Indo-European form of the shape *h₂po-h₂orkéyeti.

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