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
- M
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..." - A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...iactu non sua sponte et caput et oculos declinet, cur tonitru uehementius facto sensim pauescat, cur sternumentis quatiatur..." - L
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..."