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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...subito circulus ingens, de cupa videlicet grandi excussus, demittitur, cuius per totum orbem coronae aureae cum alabastris unguenti..."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..."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..."