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
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...videtur? GRIP. In manu non est mea: ubi demisi rete atque hamum, quidquid haesit extraho. meum quod rete..." - P
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..."
