Latin

Verb

runcō ‎(present infinitive runcāre, perfect active runcāvī, supine runcātum); first conjugation

1. I weed, clear of weeds
2. I weed out, thin out, root up.

Inflection

Derived terms

• eruncō

Descendants

• Aromanian: aruc
• Italian: roncare
• Megleno-Romanian: runc
• Romanian: arunca

References

• runco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• RUNCO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “runco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill