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
- T
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parcendo uni malum publicum fiat. Nihilo demissiore animo, cum dies venit causa ipse pro se dicta, nequiquam omnia..."