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
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..."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..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...argentique domi relictum esset, satis cognitis omnibus uiuos combussit. Fabius ab Suessula profectus Arpos primum institit oppugnare..."