absterret
Dictionary entries
- Entry →absterreo, absterrere, absterrui, absterritus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
frighten off/away; drive away; deter, discourage; keep away/withhold from, den;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...aedis adgrediri, item ut de frumento anseres, clamore absterret abigit; ita est agrestis. sed fores, quidquid est futurum..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nihil metuentem ferro transverberat et adcurrentem ancillam vulnere absterret cubiculoque prorumpit. postera die manifesta caedes, haud ambiguus percussor..."