mordeo

From Proto-Italic *mordeō, from *mordejō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mord-éye-ti, from *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”).^[1]

Cognate with Sanskrit मर्दति (márdati, “press, crush, destroy”), म्रदते (mradate, “pulverize”), Ancient Greek σμερδνός (smerdnós, “dreadful”), σμερδαλέος (smerdaléos), English smart.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.de.oː/, [ˈmɔrd̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.de.o/, [ˈmɔrd̪eo]

mordeō (present infinitive mordēre, perfect active momordī, supine morsum); second conjugation

1. to bite (into); nibble, gnaw
2. to nip, sting
3. to eat, consume, devour, erode
4. to bite into, take hold of, press or cut into
5. to hurt, pain, sting
6. to squander, waste, dissipate

• The third principal part, momordī, also appears as memordī.

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: morder
  • Asturian: morder
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: morder
    • Galician: morder
    • Portuguese: morder
  • Spanish: morder

Reflexes of an assumed variant *mordĕre:^[2]

• “mordeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mordeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mordeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be conscience-stricken: conscientia morderi (Tusc. 4. 20. 45)
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŏrdĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 129