adspirate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adspiro, adspirare, adspiravi, adspiratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
breathe/blow (upon); aspirate; instill, infuse; be fragrant; influence; aspire;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...commentariis grammaticis: "rusticus fit sermo," inquit "si adspires perperam". IV. Itaque id vocabulum, quod dicitur vulgo "barbarismus..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...avibus, mutoque in litore tantum solae desertis adspirant frondibus aurae. Nec minor in Campo furor est, emptique Quirites..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...medentes cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circum adspirant mellis dulci flavoque liquore et quae secuntur..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite..."