amitto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amitto, amittere, amisi, amissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lose; lose by death; send away, dismiss; part with; let go/slip/fall, drop;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...perii hercle: ille nunc intus turbat, hunc si amitto hic abierit. postremo hunc iam perscrutavi, hic nihil habet..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...utrumque; cetera ut sileam mala parcamque fatis, Herculem amitto patrem. Al. Compesce uoces, inclutum Alcidae genus miseraeque fato..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...tempestatibus actus heu, genitorem, omnis curae casusque levamen, amitto Anchisen. hic me, pater optime, fessum deseris, heu, tantis..."