Neco, necas, necáui, necâtum, & necui, nectum, necâre. Plautus. To slay: to kill.Obrutam armis necauere.Liu.Omni senatu necato. Cæs. Afflatu necare aliquem.Ouid.To kill with breathing on.Necari ac trucidari.Cic. Ferro necari. Horat. In amne necari.Ouid. Morsu necare aliquom. Oui. Odore tetro necare aliquem. Lucr. Necantur herbatum radices. Colum. Legumina necare. Plin. Indolem rectam necas. Sen.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nĕco, āvi, ātum (perf. necuit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P.; v. infra; part. nectus, Ser. Samm. 33, 627; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. naç, disappear; Gr. ne/kus, corpse, nekro/s, dead], to kill, slay, put to death, destroy (usually without a weapon, by poison, hunger, etc.; cf.: occido, interficio, interimo, perimo). I.Lit.: neci datus proprie dicitur, qui sine vulnere interfectus est, ut veneno aut fame, Paul. ex Fest. p. 162 Müll.: occisum a necato distingui quidam volunt, quod alterum a caedendo atque ictu fieri dicunt, alterum sine ictu, id. s. v. occisum, p. 178 ib.: necare aliquem odore taetro, Lucr. 6, 787: plebem fame, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2: legatum P. R. vinculis ac verberibus necavit, id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11: aliquem igni, Caes. B. G. 1, 53: aliquem ferro, Hor. S. 2, 7, 58; Verg. A. 8, 488: veneno, Suet. Ner. 43: securi Gell. 17, 21, 17; Juv. 10, 316: suspendiosa fame, Plin. 8, 37, 56, 134: vidissem nullos, matre necante, dies, Ov. Am. 2, 14, 22: homines in ventre necandos conducit, Juv. 6, 596: colubra necuit hominem, Phaedr. 4, 14, 4.—Of impersonal subjects: hos pestis necuit, pars occidit illa duellis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.): lien necat, renes dolent, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21: radices herbarum vomere, Col. 2, 4, 1: salsi imbres necant frumenta, Plin. 31, 4, 29, 52: hedera arbores, id. 16, 44, 92, 243; cf. Laber. ap. Macr. Sat. 2, 7: aquae flammas necant,
quench
, Plin. 31, 1, 1, 2; to drown (late Lat.): deducti ad torrentem necati sunt, Sulp. Sev. Hist. 1.—II.Trop.: quid te coërces et necas rectam indolem, i. e.
thwart, check
, Sen. Hippol. 454.—So to worry or bore to death with talking, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 43 (cf.: occidis saepe rogando, Hor. Epod. 14, 5).