comedisset
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...regem ira praecipitem, cum partem exercitus amisisset, partem comedisset, donec timuit ne et ipse uocaretur ad sortem..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...eques Romanus, qui obicienti Augusto quod patrimonium comedisset,"meum" inquit "putavi". LXXV. Elevandi ratio est duplex..."