decide
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decido, decidere, decidi, decisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
detach, cut off/out/down; fell; cut/notch/carve to delineate; flog thoroughly;; make explicit; put an end to, bring to conclusion, settle/decide/agree (on);; fall/drop/hang/flow down/off/over; sink/drop; fail, fall in ruin; end up; die;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- T
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Ludificas nunc tu me hic, opinor, Demipho. DEM. Decide collum stanti, si falsum loquor; vel, ut scias..." - L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quam flere quod arboribus amoeniset domum tuam ornantibus decidant folia. Quidquid te delectat aeque vide+ut videres..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...tantum ut parietes quibus fertur omne tegimen caui, decidant in illum subteruacantem locum totaeque urbes in immensam altitudinem..." - L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...subito erumpentis, quasdam igne fuso praestringentis aciem, quasi decidant, uel longo tractu cum luce multa praeteruolantis..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...officio commiserunt, cum his omnibus hac una lege decidant? o nimium invidendam huius legationis condicionem, si tibi..."