(verb) : lănĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, etym. dub.; cf. lacer, δάκνω
* To tear or rend in pieces, to mangle, lacerate (class.; cf.: lacero, discerpo, dilanio).
* Lit.: hominem,Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3: corpora a feris laniata,id. Tusc. 1, 45, 108: lanianda viscera praebere,Liv. 9, 1, 9: laniando dentibus hostem exspirare,id. 22, 51, 9: foede crura brachiaque,Tac. H. 1, 41: vestem,Ov. M. 5, 398: vestes,Quint. 11, 3, 174: Priamiden laniatum corpore toto vidit,Verg. A. 6, 494: digitis ora,Ov. A. A. 3, 678: carmen,Dig. 33, 7, 18 init.—With Gr. acc.: flavos Lavinia crinīs, Et roseas laniata genas,Verg. A. 12, 606: comas,Ov. M. 4, 139.—Transf., poet.: venti mundum laniant,Ov. M. 1, 60: laniata classis,id. H. 7, 175.
* Trop. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): et tua sacrilegae laniarunt carmina linguae,Ov. R. Am. 367: vitia cor laniant,Sen. Ep. 51, 13.

lănĭo (noun M) : 1. lanio
* A butcher (post-class.): lanionis instrumentum,Dig. 33, 7, 18; 1, 2, 2, § 24: quis tibi tunc, lanio, cernenti talia sensus,Sedul. Carm. 2, 127.

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