dehiscens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dehisco, dehiscere, dehivi, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
gape/yawn/split open; part/divide, develop/leave a gap/leak; be/become apart;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...fieri gentiumque discidium, cum pars naturae concita est dehiscens et aliquo mare, ignem, spiritum impegit; quorum mira..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...aliquod spatium caeli desedit et flammam uelut dehiscens in abdito ostentat. [14,2] Colores quoque horum omnium plurimi..."Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...prora prorae nocuit et lateri latus. illam dehiscens pontus in praeceps rapit hauritque et alto redditam reuomit mari..."
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...nomine fauces. ecce autem prima volucrem sub luce dehiscens terruit unda ratem vittataque constitit Helle, iam Panopes Thetidisque..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...secus ac si qua penitus vi terra dehiscens infernas reseret sedes et regna recludat pallida, dis invisa, superque..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...mons. Hi summo in fluctu pendent; his unda dehiscens terram inter fluctus aperit; furit aestus harenis. Tris Notus..."