adridens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adrideo, adridere, adrisi, adrisus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
smile at/upon; please, be pleasing/satisfactory (to); be/seem familiar (to);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nomina falso corpore laturos. stat Fortuna inproba noctu adridens nudis infantibus: hos fouet omni inuoluitque sinu, domibus tunc..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam desperatio in posterum fieret. tum Florus adridens "numquid tu" inquit "melius dicere vis quam potes..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...Triarium aliquid de dissensione nostra iudicare. Eiuro, inquit adridens, iniquum, hac quidem de re; tu enim ista lenius..."