declinet
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...adest, nec campos liberat undis 235donec in autumnum declinet Phoebus et umbrasextendat Meroe. quis causas reddere possit..."Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...iactu non sua sponte et caput et oculos declinet, cur tonitru uehementius facto sensim pauescat, cur sternumentis quatiatur..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quam sapiens vir aut ad sapientiam tendens declinet tamquam alienam bonis moribus. Itaque de secessu cogitans numquam Canopum..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam ut extenuet aliquid, saepe ut inrideat, ut declinet a proposito deflectatque sententiam, ut proponat quid dicturus..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...exponendum, cum tot modis a recto itinere declinet oratio. XV. Nam quidquid dicitur praeter illas quinque quas fecimus..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...terras; medio tutissimus ibis. neu te dexterior tortum declinet ad Anguem, neve sinisterior pressam rota ducat ad Aram..."