affligo

• adflīgō

From ad- +‎ flīgō (“strike down”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /afˈfliː.ɡoː/, [äfˈflʲiːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /afˈfli.ɡo/, [äfˈfliːɡo]

afflīgō (present infinitive afflīgere, perfect active afflīxī, supine afflīctum); third conjugation

1. to strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate

   Synonyms: ferio, tango, percutio, pello, discutio, pulsō, accido, percello, impingo, ico, verbero

2. to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin

   Synonyms: afficiō, diruo, profligo, tollo, accido

3. to humble, weaken or vex
4. to overthrow

   Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, pervertō, ēvertō, sternō, prōsternō, fundō, versō, vertō, dissipō

¹At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• afflīctiō
• afflīctō
• afflīctor
• afflīctus

• “affligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “affligo”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be the victim of misfortune: calamitatibus affligi
    
  • to bring a man to ruin; to destroy: aliquem affligere, perdere, pessumdare, in praeceps dare
    
  • their spirits are broken: animus frangitur, affligitur, percellitur, debilitatur