comedi
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. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin. - 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;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...alii, qui te volturium vocant: hostisne an civis comedis, parvi pendere. haec cum audio in te dici, discrucior..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...tamen ego verum dicam, qui linguam caninam comedi: durae buccae fuit, linguosus, discordia, non homo. Frater eius fortis..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...reliqua non reponeret, dicebat subinde "non comedi; pane et aqua vivo", "passer, redde quod debes": quae +hypo..."
