candente
Dictionary entries
- Entry →candeo, candere, candui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be of brilliant whiteness, shine, gleam (white); become/be hot; glow, sparkle;
abl. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →candens, candentis (gen.), candentior -or -us, candentissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shining/bright/clear (light); (approaching) white; boiling/red-hot, glowing;
abl. sg. (all)
Examples
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...lentis data stillant caminis, illa flammatus latex candente aeno iactat. Impositas dapes transiluit ignis inque trepidantes focos..."
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...siti, quos ore lacus, quae pabula carpsit, verbere candentes quotiens exhorruit armos! quin et ab excelso meditantem vertice..."
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...ades, auguriis promisse et sorte deorum, iam cui candentes votivo in gramine pascit cornipedes genitor, nostrae stata dona..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...prorumpit ad aethera nubem turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit; interdum scopulos..."
