demitti
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);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...tegulas subduci atque inde foras in viam demitti. IX. Nodum in apice neque in cinctu neque alia..." - L
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...moueris et lacrimas audita coniugis aut amici morte demittis et respicis famam et malignis sermonibus tangeris? 2. Quare..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...citatius moventur. Tolli autem manum artifices supra oculos, demitti infra pectus vetant: adeo a capite eam petere..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...locum capies oculis, alteque iubebis in solido puteum demitti, omnemque repones rursus humum et pedibus summas aequabis harenas..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...proelium initura explicuisset aciem, postquam neque in aequum demitti agmen vidit et cum loci altitudine tum vallo etiam..."