mordere

Around the age of two, our daughter started amusing us with a variety of linguistic amalgamations -- 'mordere' is Italian for bite and 'bumsie' is Trinidadian for bottom; 'pungere' means to prick; 'cucina' is Italian for kitchen and 'malacqua' is a fusion of 'malako' the Russian for milk (learned from our Moldovan babysitter) -- and 'acqua', Italian for water.

Juliet Linley: Come to the Kitchina! 2009

Vngulam quippe equi mordere est, extrema seculi feriendo contingere, ut cadat ascensor eius retro.

Sigh. WMAM. 2008

Vngulam quippe equi mordere est, extrema seculi feriendo contingere, ut cadat ascensor eius retro.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Ea quorundam est inscitia, ut quoties loqui, toties mordere licere sibi putent.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The primary meaning of _lacerare_ behind this usage is _mordere_;

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

One explained it as "to prime," as when one primes a musket, from O.Fr. amorce, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by "to bite" (Lat. mordere), hence "to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter."

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

One explained it as ` ` to prime, '' as when one primes a musket, from O.Fr. _amorce_, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by ` ` to bite '' (Lat. _mordere_), hence ` ` to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter. ''

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

For _mordere_ in the same transferred sense, see at xiv 46 _mordenda_ (p

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid