decidi
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. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin.
Examples
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...ille doctus leno paene in foveam decidi, ni hic adesses. quantum est adhibere hominem amicum, ubi quid geras..."Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...stas? CLIN. vae misero mi, quanta de spe decidi! CLIT. quid istuc? quae res te sollicitat autem? CLIN..."Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...succubuerit; non enim virtute hostium, sed amicorum perfidia decidi'. Neque id erat falsum. *** Nam et dignitate fuit honesta..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...inbelles thalamos mollemque maritum, rursus et in similes decidis usque toros. Quaere aliquem Curios semper Fabiosque loquentem, hirsutum..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...pronuntiatione, sic ut eram, sine gladio in lectulum decidi, et attulissem mihi damnatus manus, si non inimici victoriae..."
