demissos
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. (m.)
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...planta; non timidum nuptae leuiter tectura pudorem 360lutea demissos uelarunt flammea uoltus, balteus aut fluxos gemmis astrinxit amictus..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quinque etenim licet inter dum pluresque videre ordine demisso levibus iactarier auris, unus ubi ex uno dependet supter..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...inquit 'Naeuia lumen, haue.' Haec legit et ridet demisso Naeuia uultu. Naeuia non una est: quid, uir inepte..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...caelo interesse, id est iubes me vivere capite demisso? Maior sum et ad maiora genitus quam ut mancipium..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...crines aut in interiora reductos aut in latera demissos. Sed siue sunt aliquae differentiae illorum siue non sunt..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Nunc mihi permitte narrare fabulam. Asclepiodotus auctor est demissos quam plurimos a Philippo in metallum antiquum olim destitutum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...antequam robur accipiat: alit se ipsa contentio et demissos altius tenet; facilius est se a certamine abstinere quam..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...finibus extremis Libyes, ubi feruida tellus accipit Oceanum demisso sole calentem, squalebant late Phorcynidos arua Medusae, non nemorum..."
