verb
alterco
Meaning
- to wrangle
alterco, āre,
I. act. form for altercor (anteand post-class.), to wrangle, quarrel: cum patre altercāsti, * Ter. And. 4, 1, 28.—Pass.:
ne, dum de his altercatur, ipsius negotii disceptatio proteletur, Inst. Just. 4, 13, 10.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
altercō āvī, —, āre,
to wrangle: cum patre, T.