demittis
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. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...tegulas subduci atque inde foras in viam demitti. IX. Nodum in apice neque in cinctu neque alia..."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..."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..."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..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...proelium initura explicuisset aciem, postquam neque in aequum demitti agmen vidit et cum loci altitudine tum vallo etiam..."