decerptas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decerpo, decerpere, decerpsi, decerptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pluck, pull/tear/snip off, pick; cull; reap/procure/gather; catch/snatch; remove
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sequiturque sorores et patitur tangi seque admirantibus offert. decerptas senior porrexerat Inachus herbas: illa manus lambit patriisque..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ramis crepitantibus auro: hinc tria forte mea veniens decerpta ferebam aurea poma manu nullique videnda nisi ipsi Hippomenen..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sequiturque sorores et patitur tangi seque admirantibus offert. decerptas senior porrexerat Inachus herbas: illa manus lambit patriisque..."