decoquit
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. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...debet, effluit in terras, saeuum sed membra uenenum decoquit, in minimum mors contrahit omnia uirus. quidquid homo..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...coniunx percurrit pectine telas, aut dulcis musti Volcano decoquit umorem et foliis undam trepidi despumat aeni. at rubicunda..."