decoxit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura XV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...totum corrosis ossibus edit uictrix turba, nec ardenti decoxit aeno aut ueribus, longum usque adeo tardumque putauit expectare..."Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...uxor sarcinaeque seruique, nihil colonus uilicusque decoxit. Maeroris igitur causa quae? Domi cenat. 10 Esse quid hoc dicam..."