decedebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decedo, decedere, decessi, decessus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
withdraw/retire, go off/away, depart, leave; relinquish/cease; desert/abandon;; quit office and return home; make/get out of the way; yield; wane; fall short;; stray/digress; pass away/depart life, die; subside/cease (feelings); disappear;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quis inferis sensus est) hoc grauissime ferens quod decedebat populo Romano superstite, septem aut octo certe dierum cibaria..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...humana, non largitionibus principis aut deum placamentis decedebat infamia, quin iussum incendium crederetur. ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit..."