demittitur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tormenta sentiat, repetitur et per adsiccata vulnera recens demittitur sanguis, non timet? istum tu dices nec dolere?' Iste..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...terris propior): numquam cometes in imum usque demittitur neque appropinquat solo. [23,1] Etiamnunc ignis..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uentum, qui fere procellosus est, quia superne demittitur, et in nos cadit uehemens et acer, quia non fusus..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...hibernam magnitudinem redit atque ex ea demittitur. At Nilus ante exortum Caniculae augetur mediis aestibus ultra aequinoctium..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...terra tenus descendet arcus: atqui usque in humum demittitur. [8,3] Praeterea numquam non contra solem arcus..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...subito circulus ingens, de cupa videlicet grandi excussus, demittitur, cuius per totum orbem coronae aureae cum alabastris unguenti..." - P
Ecloga IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna, iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto. tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...lata est sententia tristis, et omnis calculus inmitem demittitur ater in urnam: quae simul effudit numerandos versa lapillos..."