demissas
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. pl. 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. pl. (f.)
Examples
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...nomines." Tum ille ostentator voce iam molli atque demissa: "philosophias" inquit "ego non didici neque discere adpetivi..."Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...notissimae saltatriculae nomine appellaret, tum voce molli atque demissa Hortensius "Dionysia," inquit "Dionysia malo equidem esse quam quod..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...superne. nam fit ut inter dum tam quam demissa columna in mare de caelo descendat, quam freta circum..."Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...caelata? Instratos ostro alipedes pictisque tapetis: aurea pectoribus demissa monilia pendent, tecti auro fulvum mandunt sub dentibus aurum..."Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...frigida est: in fornacem coniecta concaluit, in aquam demissa refrixit. Mors honesta est per illud quod honestum..."Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...transeuntem per Latinam viam unus ex custodiarum agmine demissa usque in pectus vetere barba rogaret mortem, 'nunc enim..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nostrum est. Sic quaedam rectissima, cum in aquam demissa sunt, speciem curvi praefractique visentibus reddunt. Non tantum quid..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...arma timent gentes hominumque erepta lacertis a superis demissa putant. sic illa profecto sacrifico cecidere Numae, quae lecta..."
