demissi
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);
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. 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
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...aedem Iunonis ne tangito; si tangit, Iunoni crinibus demissis agnum feminam caedito." "Paelex" autem quasi pallax..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...diem obscuraret, ullam sagittam in solem incidisse aut demissis in profundum catenis Neptunum potuisse contingi? Vt caelestia humanas..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ueniet tempus, cum latratu caua saxa sonent. nunc demissi nare sagaci captent auras lustraque presso quaerant rostro..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...fractos arcus et sine luce facem; adspice, demissis ut eat miserabilis alis pectoraque infesta tundat aperta manu! excipiunt..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt. Maltinus tunicis demissis ambulat, est qui inguen ad obscaenum subductis usque; facetus..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...latas, eadem altitudine perduxit, quarum interiorem campestribus ac demissis locis aqua ex flumine derivata complevit. Post eas aggerem..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...montuosa et aspera, angustias vallium sublicis in terram demissis praesaepserat terramque aggesserat, ut aquam contineret. Itaque illi necessario..."Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...haud simili' virgost virginum nostrarum, quas matres student demissis umeris esse, vincto pectore, ut gracilae sient. siquaest habitior..."
