dehiscunt
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...ranisque loquacibus explet; postquam exusta palus terraeque ardore dehiscunt, exsilit in siccum, et flammantia lumina torquens saeuit agris..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...obscurum noctis, pecudesque locutae (infandum!); sistunt amnes terraeque dehiscunt, et maestum inlacrimat templis ebur aeraque sudant. proluit insano..."