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
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..."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..."