adlevat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adlevo, adlevare, adlevavi, adlevatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lift/raise/heap/pile up, exalt; alleviate/diminish/weaken; comfort/console/cheer; smooth, smooth off, make smooth; polish; depilate;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...murmura ponunt iam Minyae, iam ferre volunt. vix adlevat ora ad seras siquando dapes, quas carus Iason ipse..."Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...aggere longe eminet, hunc crebris quatiens singultibus ora adlevat Aesonides celsoque reponit in ostro. dat pictas auro atque..."- P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Gorgenque nurumque nobilis Alcmenae natis in corpore pennis adlevat et longas per bracchia porrigit alas corneaque ora facit..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aversae vulnera dextris. ille cruore fluens, cubito tamen adlevat artus, semilacerque toro temptat consurgere, et inter tot medius..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...viri, mutatione rerum et prece haud degeneri permotus, adlevat supplicem laudatque quod gentem Aorsorum, quod suam dextram petendae..."