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
- T
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...ille doctus leno paene in foveam decidi, ni hic adesses. quantum est adhibere hominem amicum, ubi quid geras..." - P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...stas? CLIN. vae misero mi, quanta de spe decidi! CLIT. quid istuc? quae res te sollicitat autem? CLIN..." - C
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..."- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...pronuntiatione, sic ut eram, sine gladio in lectulum decidi, et attulissem mihi damnatus manus, si non inimici victoriae..."