decoquite
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;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- M
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..." - P
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..."