demissior
Dictionary entries
- 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
nom. sg. (m./f.)voc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quam fervida signa. et magis hoc lunam: quanto demissior eius cursus abest procul a caelo terrisque propinquat, tanto..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...modo dicta de damnatione Philodami, altera cum deprecatione demissior. CLXXII. Quare, etiam si est in illis quoque cantus..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...limite curras, Icare,' ait 'moneo, ne, si demissior ibis, unda gravet pennas, si celsior, ignis adurat: inter utrumque..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parcendo uni malum publicum fiat. Nihilo demissiore animo, cum dies venit causa ipse pro se dicta, nequiquam omnia..."