decoctus

Dictionary entries

• decoco, decocere, decoxi, decoctus:

  Verb · 3rd conjugation

  Frequency:

  Frequent

  Dictionary:

  Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

  = boil/melt (down/away); stew; (hot bath); heat to boiling; smelt, fuse; consume;; ruin; (cause to) waste away; shrivel; squander; suffer loss, become bankrupt;

  Entry →

  nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
• decoctus, decocta -um, decoctior -or -us, decoctissimus -a -um:

  Adjective · 1st declension

  Frequency:

  Uncommon

  Dictionary:

  Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

  = over-ripe (fruit); luscious (literary/rhetoric style); mature/ripe (good sense);

  Entry →

  nom. sg. (m.)
• decoctus, decoctus:

  Masculine · Noun · 4th declension

  Frequency:

  Pliny

  Dictionary:

  Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

  = process of boiling (in); seething (L+S);

  Entry →

  acc. pl.

  gen. sg.

  nom. pl.

  nom. sg.

  voc. pl.

  voc. sg.