dementem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demento, dementare, dementavi, dementatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
drive mad/crazy; bewitch; delude; rave, be out of one's mind;
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →demo, demere, dempsi, demptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
take/cut away/off, remove, withdraw; subtract; take away from;
acc. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →demens, dementis (gen.), dementior -or -us, dementissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
out of one's mind/senses; demented, mad, wild, raving; reckless, foolish;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
- T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...atque Anterastilis. haec est prior, quae meum erum dementem facit. sed evocabo. heus, i foras, Agorastocles..." - L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...caret malitia, sed leviore vexatur. 'At enim dementem puto qui mala inminentia non extimescit.' Verum est quod dicis..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...mortem iussi eamus an ultronei? [59,9] te dementem et oblitum fragilitatis tuae, si tunc mortem times..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dici non potest, illud succurrit: "non est hoc dementem esse, male tractare, rem publicam [verbis] laedere". Finitio igitur..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...occisa insanisse parente ac non ante malis dementem actum Furiis quam in matris iugulo ferrum tepefecit acutum? quin..."
