diripio

From dis- (“separation, dispersion”) + rapiō (“grab, seize”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈrɪ.pi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈriː.pi.o]

dīripiō (present infinitive dīripere, perfect active dīripuī, supine dīreptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

1. to tear apart; to tear to pieces

   Synonym: scindō

2. to lay waste, plunder an enemy’s territory or possessions

   Synonyms: praedor, dēpraedor, populor, expugnō, trahō, agō

3. to loot; steal; rob

   Synonyms: dēmō, āvertō, rapiō, auferō, abdūcō, fraudō, āmoveō, adimō, ēripiō, tollō, abdō, corripiō, praedor, agō

   Quem perterriti omnes Arverni circumsistunt atque obsecrant, ut suis fortunis consulat, neve ab hostibus diripiantur ― Crowd around him all the horrified Arverni and entreat him to protect their property, and not to suffer them to be plundered by the enemy. (Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, VII, 8)

4. to whip out (a sword)
5. to run after; to compete for the company of

• dīreptiō

• “diripio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diripio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “diripio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to plunder a town: oppidum diripere