declinari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →declino, declinare, declinavi, declinatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
deflect/divert/turnaside/swerve/change direction/deviate/dodge; digress/diverge;; avoid/stray; vary/be different; bend/sink down, subside/decline; lower/descend;; decline/conjugate/inflect (in the same manner/like); change word form, modify;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...inquiunt "fato putat omnia moveri et regi nec declinari transcendique posse agmina fati et volumina, peccata quoque hominum..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dicitur "cursitare" qua "lectitare", id est eadem ratione declinari. Quare illo intellectu priore et communi nihil non figuratum..."
