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
- A
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...Hesiodum commentario legi: "Cepetum revirescit et congerminat decedente luna, contra autem inarescit adolescente. Eam causam esse dicunt sacerdotes..." - A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...virilem, sed corpus quoque ipsum effeminare. Hieme iam decedente apud balneas Titias in area subcalido sole cum Favorino..." - P
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..."