combussit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comburo, comburere, combussi, combustus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
burn up/away; (w/love); consume/destroy w/fire; reduce to ash, cremate; scald;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...abstulit. 6. Historias quas postea scripserat recitauit [et combussit] et libros acta Caesaris Augusti continentis in ignem inposuit..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...diuersis aut in neutris fuisse partibus, combussit. Quamuis moderate soleret irasci, maluit tamen non posse; gratissimum putauit genus..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...argentique domi relictum esset, satis cognitis omnibus uiuos combussit. Fabius ab Suessula profectus Arpos primum institit oppugnare..."