lorico

From lōrīca + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫoːˈriː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈriː.ko]

lōrīcō (present infinitive lōrīcāre, perfect active lōrīcāvī, supine lōrīcātum); first conjugation

1. to armour (someone) with a lōrīca

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   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, De Bello Africo 72:

     ornatusque ac loricatus cum esset elephans

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   • AD 77–79, C. Plinius Secundus (aut.), K.F.T. Mayhoff (ed.), Naturalis Historia (1906), bk VIII, ch. xxxix:

     mergit se limo saepius siccatque sole, mox ubi pluribus eodem modo se coriis loricavit, in dimicationem pergit.

   1. (post-Classical, by extension) to clothe (someone) in a cuirass, breastplate, corslet, coat of mail, hauberk, or other such armour protecting at least the torso
2. (transferred sense) to cover (something) with a coating, to plaster

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• English: loricate

• “lōrīco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "Loricare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lōrīco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 922/1.
• “lōrīcō” on page 1,044/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)