I.v. a., to cut down or to pieces (ante- and post-class. and very rare): “filios,” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 51; cf.: inermes et obsistentes, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 61.—Facete: “cibum,” Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 48: “offulam grandiorem,” App. M. 1, p. 103, 35: “moles palearum,” id. ib. 9, p. 222, 37.
con-trunco , āvi, ātum, 1,