demisere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demitto, demittere, demisi, demissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drop, let fall; sink; send/cast/go/flow/float/slope down; flow/shed/let (blood);; bend/stoop/bow/sag; lower (eyes); let (clothes/hair/beard) hang down;; bring/strike down; plunge/insert/thrust/plant; dismiss/demote; depose; absorb;; descend by race/birth; leave (will); let issue rest (on evidence); fell (tree);
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...peteretur ultio. Multi leues iniurias altius sibi demisere dum uindicant: ille magnus et nobilis qui more magnae ferae..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...flos succisus aratro languescit moriens, lassove papavera collo demisere caput pluvia cum forte gravantur. at Nisus ruit..."Aeneid II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...proditione Pelasgi insontem infando indicio, quia bella vetabat, demisere neci, nunc cassum lumine lugent: illi me comitem..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...populo prohibente corona exhibuit gemino praesignia tempora cornu. demisere oculos omnes gemitumque dedere atque illud meritis clarum (quis..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cuspidis hastas in caput Haemonii iuvenis torquere parantis, demisere metu vultumque animumque Pelasgi; ipsa quoque extimuit, quae tutum..."