delere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deleo, delere, delevi, deletus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
erase, wipe/scratch/remove (letters/marks), wipe/blot out, expunge, delete;; annihilate/exterminate, kill every member of a group; put end to, end/abolish;; destroy completely, demolish/obliterate/crush; ruin; overthrow; nullify/annul;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...autem, qui maxime displicuissent, scripta sua spongia linguave delere iussos, nisi ferulis obiurgari aut flumine proximo mergi maluissent..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...numine Troia est, non tamen omnino Teucros delere paratis, cum talis animos iuvenum et tam certa tulistis pectora..." - M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...unam D. Silani, qui censet eos, qui haec delere conati sunt, morte esse multandos, alteram C. Caesaris..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vulnera nigra veneno. neve operis famam posset delere vetustas, instituit sacros celebri certamine ludos, Pythia de domitae serpentis..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...audacia mixta pudori. scripta 'soror' fuerat; visum est delere sororem verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris: 'quam, nisi..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vulnera nigra veneno. neve operis famam posset delere vetustas, instituit sacros celebri certamine ludos, Pythia de domitae serpentis..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...nostras, nonumque prematur in annum membranis intus positis; delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit uox missa reuerti. Siluestris..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...nostri fiducia cursus.quamuis Hesperium mundi properemus ad axemMassiliam delere uacat. gaudete, cohortes: 360obuia praebentur fatorum munere bella.uentus..."