demissum
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. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. 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. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quis fusa solo uitalia calcet, 620ore quis aduerso demissum faucibus ensemexpulerit moriens anima, quis corruat ictus,quis steterit..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quoque per mare nimbus, ut picis e caelo demissum flumen, in undas sic cadit effertus tenebris procul..."Satura XV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...atque exercendis pariendisque artibus apti sensum a caelesti demissum traximus arce, cuius egent prona et terram spectantia. mundi..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...servire iusserunt, et fecerunt animalis generosissimi summum bonum demissum et ignobile, praeterea mixtum portentosumque et ex diversis..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...verbo uno magnitudinem eius ostendit, et apud Vergilium: "demissum lapsi per funem": nam sic quoque est demonstrata altitudo..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...signum alacritatis), neque illum tristem semperque demissum sperare possim erectae circa studia mentis fore, cum in hoc quoque..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...clara quidem, senior placidissime, gentis linea nec proavis demissum stemma, sed ingens supplevit fortuna genus culpamque parentum, occuluit..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...oceano, famam qui terminet astris,— Iulius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo. Hunc tu olim caelo, spoliis Orientis onustum..."
