decoquerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decoquo, decoquere, 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;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...carens stomachus. Inde in omnem vitam balneum fugimus;decoquere corpus atque exinanire sudoribus inutile simul delicatumque credidimus. Cetera..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...minus autem turpe est creditori quam spei bonae decoquere. Ad illud aes alienum solvendum opus est negotianti navigatione..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...tantum recipiendum sit, quantum ultro refertur; decoquere uero foedissimum ob hoc ipsum, quia non opus est ad liberandam..."