abradis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →abrado, abradere, abrasi, abrasus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
scratch/scrape/rub/wipe (off), shave; erase; wash/erode away; "knock off", rob;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...illis opera luditur. aliis aliundest periclum unde aliquid abradi potest: mihi sciunt nil esse. dices "ducent damnatum domum..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...stellas aut transilire aut aliquid illis auferri et abradi: [1,10] nam si hoc fuisset, etiam defuissent; nulla..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...potius non laturi homines essent, destringi aliquid et abradi bonis, quae sanguine, gentilitate, sacrorum denique societate, meruissent, quaeque..."