comede
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comedo, comedere, comedi, comesus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
eat up/away, chew up; finish eating; fret, chafe; consume/devour; waste/squander
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →comedus, comedi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
glutton; gourmet; one who spends/squanders his money on feasting/revelling;
voc. sg.
Examples
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...inde coctam sursum subducemus corbulis. si autem deorsum comedent, si quid coxerint, superi incenati sunt et cenati inferi..."Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...quid turbaest! aedes nostrae vix capient, scio. quid comedent! quid ebibent! quid sene erit nostro miserius? sed video..."
