demitteret
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. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...terris inducere nubes tunc habuit, nec quos caelo demitteret imbres: intonat et dextra libratum fulmen ab aure misit..."Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Thessaliam posset. Inclinauit sententia ut in Thessaliam agmen demitteret, Triccamque proximis limitibus petit; inde obuias urbes raptim peragrauit..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...morae Samnitibus est quoad totum in vallem infimam demitteret agmen, P. Decius tribunus militum conspicit unum editum..."