demittit
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. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quam protinus ille retecto ense ferit totoque semel demittit ab armo, exemplarque sui spectans miserabile leti stat tutus..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tristior ipsa uiro dum modo Lucrino, modo se demittit Auerno, et dum Baianis saepe fouetur aquis, incidit..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...dentibus alligat. sed tunc diuitias omne nemus suas demittit propius pomaque desuper insultant foliis mitia languidis accenduntque famem..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...longior aetas iam speciem; triplici percurrens tempora nodo demittit sacro geminas a vertice vittas. Datin Achaemeniae gravior..."Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...instaurat mensas pacemque reducit et iam sidereo noctem demittit Olympo. tunc adsuetus adest Phlegraeas [qui] reddere pugnas Musarum..."Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...fletibus et magno Phoebi commotus honore velocem roseis demittit nubibus Irin. 'i, Phrygas Alcides et Troiae differat arma..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...voces, haesit et occulto virtus infracta calore est. demittit clipeum regisque ad limina versus attonitum factis inopinaque monstra..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...litus currit et prendens petrampilosa crura sensim demittit uado;quorum inter uillos haeserunt cancri simul,in terram adsiliens..."