adoro
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adoro, adorare, adoravi, adoratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
honor, adore, worship, pay homage, reverence; beg, plead with, appeal to;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...eloquentior. 'Cuius?' inquis. Epicuri; adhuc enim alienas +sarcinas adoro+: 'nemo non ita exit e vita tamquam modo intraverit..."Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...post longa fessus spatia, uix credens mihi, supplex adoro. uota superis soluite: telluris altum remeat Argolicae decus tandem..."
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ineuitabile numen, te uoco, te solam superum contemptor adoro.' sic ait, et uoti sese facit ipse potentem..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...venti; in rupes, in saxa (volens vos Turnus adoro) ferte ratem saevisque vadis immittite syrtis..."