demitterer
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. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...potuit terrere tumultus? 300fata sed in praeceps solitus demittere Caesarfortunamque suam per summa pericula gaudensexercere uenit..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...inpubem molli pubescere veste et pariter mollem malis demittere barbam. fulmina postremo nix imbres nubila venti non nimis..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...sequerentur et recto spiritu liberoque in illos se demitterent specus, in quos nullum noctium perueniret dierumque discrimen..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...nobis oriuntur. 2. Debet autem in haec se demittere disputatio ut ad illa quoque altiora possit exsurgere..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...uenienti seruitutem. Non pudet uirtutes in clientelam uitiorum demittere? 3. Deinde desinit quicquam posse ratio, si nihil potest..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...reddidit, gratus. De quibusdam et inperitus iudex demittere tabellam potest, ubi fecisse aut non fecisse pronuntiandum..."De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...Planco silentium imponeret, non audenti in comparationem se demittere. Sed ex eo clarus, propria auditoria instituit, solitus proposita..."Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...flamma, quae frangere morsu,quaeque per abrasas utero demittere fauces, 115plurimaque humanis ante hoc incognita mensisdiripiens miles saturum..."