decedente
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;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...Hesiodum commentario legi: "Cepetum revirescit et congerminat decedente luna, contra autem inarescit adolescente. Eam causam esse dicunt sacerdotes..."Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...virilem, sed corpus quoque ipsum effeminare. Hieme iam decedente apud balneas Titias in area subcalido sole cum Favorino..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...solo in litore secum, te veniente die, te decedente canebat. Taenarias etiam fauces, alta ostia Ditis, et caligantem..."