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Assatura ?

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Does anyone know what the above word means ? I am guessing it is something to do with food from the context :-

femina assaturam radicula ornat.

Thanks in advance.

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assare: to roast, broil. Hence assatura=about to roast,broil (f.)

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Post by Brinestorm »

Mulciber, did you use the Perseus morphological analyzer? That was my first thought, too, since the future participle makes the stem difficult to decipher.

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Post by csentiusleontius »

Thanks guys. My dictionaries don't list asso, assare. Which dictionary do you use ?

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Post by Brinestorm »

Perseus' Word Search (Latin and English) is an online version of the Lewis and Short, I believe.

An even more incredible tool is the Perseus Word Study Tool, which will take a word in its given form (such as assatura) and decipher its stem and all form-related information.

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Post by cweb255 »

It actually comes from the word assus thought to be related to areo (arsus?) to be dry.

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Post by Mulciber »

Mulciber, did you use the Perseus morphological analyzer?
I searched for "asso" at Perseus. But I didn't need the morphology tool because it's obvious what the stem must be as verb is a completely regular 1st conj.

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Post by csentiusleontius »

That's a great resource. Thanks again guys.

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