delet
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. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tollit stillantem Fannius uvam, Tristia saxorum stigmata delet Eros; Enterocelarum fertur Podalirius Hermes: Qui sanet ruptos dic mihi..."Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inter admiranda propositos, quos si quis corrigit, delet; sic enim vitia virtutibus inmixta sunt ut illas secum tractura..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...causa creditum est stilum non minus agere cum delet. huius autem operis est adicere detrahere mutare. Sed facilius..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...euoluere globum, et spatio quo quisque ualebat diducti. delet sulcos iterata priores orbita, nunc auidi prono iuga pectore..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...dubitat, scribit damnatque tabellas, et notat et delet, mutat culpatque probatque inque vicem sumptas ponit positasque resumit. quid..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...incendium hoc in hostium urbem, et suis flammis delete Fidenas, quas vestris beneficiis placare non potuistis. Legatorum..."