deflemus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deflo, deflare, deflavi, deflatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
blow away, blow on (for purpose of cleansing); brush/blow aside/off;
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →defleo, deflere, deflevi, defletus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
weep (abundantly) for; mourn loss of; express/feel sorrow about; lament/bewail;; cry bitterly; give oneself up to tears; weep much/violently/to exhaustion (L+S);
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...Omnibus illo nobis commune est iter: quid fata deflemus? Non reliquit ille nos sed antecessit. Est, mihi crede..."XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...corporum contumelias, damna cultus et negatos in publicum deflemus egressus, orbitates ac liberorum suprema plangantur? quid tamen facere..."
