degustent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →degusto, degustare, degustavi, degustatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
taste; taste/try/eat/drink a little of; glance at; graze; sip; test; judge;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...intima curantuiscera nec totas auidae sorbere medullas:degustant artus. Latiae pars maxima turbaefastidita iacet; quam sol nimbique diesque..."Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...subsiliunt ignes ad tecta domorum et celeri flamma degustant tigna trabesque, sponte sua facere id sine vi subiecta..."