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
- D
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..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam desperatio in posterum fieret. tum Florus adridens "numquid tu" inquit "melius dicere vis quam potes..." - M
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..."