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
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...perii hercle: ille nunc intus turbat, hunc si amitto hic abierit. postremo hunc iam perscrutavi, hic nihil habet..."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..."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..."