delerent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delero, delerare, deleravi, deleratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be mad/deranged/silly; dote; speak deliriously, rave; deviate from balks (plow);
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd - 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;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...nostras, nonumque prematur in annum membranis intus positis; delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit uox missa reuerti. Siluestris..."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..."