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
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...atque Anterastilis. haec est prior, quae meum erum dementem facit. sed evocabo. heus, i foras, Agorastocles..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
