decesserunt
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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...naves imprudentia aut tempestate paulum suo cursu decesserunt, has more praedonum diripere consuerunt. Eis autem invitis, a quibus..."Liber XLIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...annum mortui sunt L. Flamininus . . . pontifices duo decesserunt, L. Furius Philus et C. Liuius Salinator. In locum Furii..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...mobilitas facit. Quidam ex iis qui tunc egerant decesserunt, exsulant alii; huic aetas et valetudo silentium suasit..."