deguster
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;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- M
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..." - T
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..."