deflet
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd - 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);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...incommodum, non esse. Illud quoque dicamus ei qui deflet ac desiderat in aetate prima raptum: omnes, quantum..."de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...spei bonae aliquid relinquit, hic autem stulte deflet quae corrigi posse desperat; et uniuersa contemplanti maioris animi..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...numero. Dextra cur patrui uacat? nondum Thyestes liberos deflet suos? et quando tollet? ignibus iam subditis spument aena..."APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...ipsum nova Romanae iura securis tremere Oceanum. Deflete virum, quo non alius potuit citius discere causas, una tantum..."FRAGMENTA
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...segetes et totum perdidit annum, In simili deflet tristia fata sinu. Funera conciliant miseros, orbique parentes Coniugunt gemitus..."Virgil
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...Flaccum iam adultum, cuius exitum sub nomine Daphnidis deflet. Inter cetera studia medicinae quoque ac maxime mathematicae operam..."
