attenuat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →attenuo, attenuare, attenuavi, attenuatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
thin (out); weaken, lessen, diminish, shrink, reduce in size; make plain;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...glebam prono convellit vomere taurus, non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram, squalida desertis rubigo infertur aratris. ipsius..."Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...bene surrexit versu nova pagina primo, attenuat nervos proximus ille meos; nec mihi materia est numeris levioribus apta..."
