amentem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amento, amentare, amentavi, amentatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fit with a throwing strap; give impetus with a throwing strap; speed on;
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →amens, amentis (gen.), amentior -or -us, amentissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
insane, demented, out of one's mind; very excited, frantic, distracted; foolish;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
- A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...principio coercendae seditioni impares fuerint, populum percitum et amentem non deseruerint, ad alterutram partem dividi sese adiunxerint..." - M
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...vita nisi voluptatis causa? 'An me', inquis, 'tam amentem putas, ut apud imperitos isto modo loquar..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...auspicioque vicissent ab impotenti crudelitate dictatoris tutarentur: venire amentem invidia, iratum virtuti alienae felicitatique; furere quod se absente..."