demersus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demersus, demersa -um, demersior -or -us, demersissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
depressed;
nom. sg. (m.) - 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
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →demersus, demersus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
action of sinking/submerging; a sinking (L+S);
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...lenta ac difficili materia commissus fumoque demersus ex sordido lucet; eadem enim detinet causa, quae maligne alit..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...gloria reddit honores. Est locus exciso penitus demersus hiatu Parthenopen inter magnaeque Dicarchidos arva, Cocyti perfusus aqua..." - G
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Ostia navigaret, vehementi circio bis paene demersus est, prope Liguriam iuxtaque Stoechadas insulas. Quare a Massilia Gesoriacum usque..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...calidi spiritus ardore suspenderet, profundus umor ad ima demersus, unde cotidie superpositi caloris alimenta traherentur, terrenum pondus..." - M
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...Marius uti poterat, ut expulsus, egens, in palude demersus tropaeorum recordatione levaret dolorem suum, audirem et plane probarem..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...regnum Tiberinus ab illis cepit et in Tusci demersus fluminis undis nomina fecit aquae; de quo Remulusque feroxque..."
