demisi
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);
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...videtur? GRIP. In manu non est mea: ubi demisi rete atque hamum, quidquid haesit extraho. meum quod rete..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tuus hoc genitor) gladium spoliantis in ima ilia demisi. Cthonius quoque Teleboasque ense iacent nostro: ramum prior ille..."
