demittebant
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);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...impedimento. CXLIII. Togam veteres ad calceos usque demittebant, ut Graeci palium: idque ut fiat, qui de gestu scripserunt..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...quid tale capita adfligebant. E muris panis sportis demittebant. Moenibus deturbat. Ne illa tauro paria sint. Ita fiducia..."
