demittat
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);
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ignorat ut illud ad haec in diem utilia demittat. Quid ergo? non eo potius curam transferes, ut ostendas..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...agimus, sed ut ille omnes iniurias in altum demittat patientiaque se ac magnitudine animi defendat..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...Zephyris aperite sinus; pars transtra reponat, pars demittat aquis curvae moderamina puppis; sint quibus exploret primos gravis artemo..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...quae satis ima dehiscat terra mihi, Manisque deam demittat ad imos?' tantum effata caput glauco contexit amictu multa..."