cremate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cremo, cremare, cremavi, crematus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
burn (to ash)/cremate; consume/destroy (fire); burn alive; make burnt offering;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...gnatis patres funesta pestis, una fax thalamos cremat, fletuque acerbo funera et questu carent. quin ipsa tanti peruicax..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...rapax ignis non umquam alimenta recusat innumerasque trabes cremat et, quo copia maior est data, plura petit turbaque..."