demersas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demersus, demersa -um, demersior -or -us, demersissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
depressed;
acc. pl. (f.) - Entry →demergo, demergere, demersi, demersus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
submerge/sink; plunge/dip/immerse; set; retract; conceal; bury; overwhelm/engulf
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...remorum, recta est, et recta superne guberna; quae demersa liquore obeunt, refracta videntur omnia converti sursumque supina reverti..."FRAGMENTA
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Rebus in aduersis, quae iacuere, iuuant. Sic, rate demersa, fuluum deponderat aurum; Remorum leuitas naufraga membra vehit..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...fluminis neque directam tantis fluctibus tenere posset, demersa nave periit. Cum in Syriam Caesar ex Aegypto venisset atque..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...enim abscedant, cui dubium esse, quin hostes extracturi demersas moles sint et minore molimento aperturi portum, quam obstruatur..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...perpetratae rei, partim uetusta gloria urbis. Atheniensium classes demersae et duo ingentes exercitus cum duobus clarissimis ducibus deleti..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...miseriaeque et labores plebis in fossas cloacasque exhauriendas demersae; Romanos homines, victores omnium circa populorum, opifices ac lapicidas..."