corruat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →corruo, corruere, corrui, corrutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall/break down, fall to ground/from height, collapse; be ruined, come to grief;; topple (house/wall), totter; subside (ground); rush/sweep together; overthrow;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quis aduerso demissum faucibus ensemexpulerit moriens anima, quis corruat ictus,quis steterit dum membra cadunt, qui pectore telatransmittant..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...caeli circuit et, ne quid labefactum viribus ignis corruat, explorat. quae postquam firma suique roboris esse videt, terras..."