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vespillo

vespillo noun: one who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

Noun

vespillo (plural vespilloes)

  1. (Ancient-Rome) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
    • Like vespilloes or gravemakers.1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC
  2. A wasp from the genus Vespillo in the family Vespidae.

Forms of vespillo

pluralvespilloes

Origin of vespillo

From Latin vespillo.

Questions about vespillo

What does vespillo mean?
Vespillo means one who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
What part of speech is vespillo?
Vespillo is a noun.
What is the plural of vespillo?
The plural of vespillo is vespilloes.

Words near vespillo in the dictionary

  1. vespiary
  2. vespid
  3. vespidous
  4. vespids
  5. vespiform
  6. vespillo
  7. vespilloes
  8. vespine
  9. vespines
  10. vespoid
  11. Vessabhū

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