demissam
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);
acc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →demissus, demissa -um, demissior -or -us, demississimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
low/low-lying; of low altitude; keeping low (people); slanting/hanging/let down;; lowly/degraded/abject; downhearted/low/downcast/dejected/discouraged/despondent
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...putat, ut sonis tum placidis tum citatis aut demissam iacentemque orationem eius erigeret aut ferocientem saevientemque cohiberet. Verba..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...sorores. ipsa manu nuptam genetrix Aeneia duxit lumine demissam et dulci probitate rubentem, ipsa toros et sacra parat..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nunc nequiquam fallis dea. sed quis Olympo demissam tantos volvit te ferre labores? an fratris miseri letum..."Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...despicere in valles imumque Acheronta videtur, nunc, ubi demissam curvum circumstetit aequor, suspicere inferno summum de gurgite caelum..."
