evito

1.

ē-vīto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to shun, avoid (class.;

most freq. since the Aug. per.): tela amictu,

Cat. 116, 7:

metaque fervidis Evitata rotis,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 5:

fraxinum,

Ov. M. 12, 123:

bidental,

Pers. 2, 27 et saep.—Of abstract objects:

causas suspicionum offensionumque,

Cic. Lael. 24:

dolorem,

id. Fin. 5, 7 fin.:

continuatos pedes,

id. Or. 57, 194; cf.

asperitatem,

Quint. 1, 5, 42:

ejusmodi verba,

id. 9, 4, 145:

expositionem,

id. 4, 2, 75; 4, 1, 71 et saep.

2.

ē-vīto, āre, āvi, v. a. [vita], to deprive of life, to kill (ante- and post-class.): vidi, Priamo vi vitam evitari, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85 (Trag. v. 129 ed. Vahl.): evitat vitam regi, Att. ap. Non. 449, 32 (Rib. Trag. Fragm. p. 181):

tres juvenes,

App. M. 3, p. 133 (al. enecasse); cf. Enarizô, evito, Gloss. Gr. Lat.