crepites
Dictionary entries
- Entry →crepito, crepitare, crepitavi, crepitatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rattle/clatter; rustle/crackle; produce rapid succession of sharp/shrill noises;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...crepant, quod sentias? MEN. Vbi satur sum, nulla crepitant; quando esurio, tum crepant. MED. Hoc quidem edepol..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ditantur flammae; non umquam opulentior illic ante cinis: crepitant gemmae, atque inmane liquescit argentum, et pictis exsudat uestibus..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...erratque auris et tempora circum crebra manus, duro crepitant sub vulnere malae. stat gravis Entellus nisuque immotus eodem..."