demittunt
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);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...magnificentissimam ad syllabas vocant, qui animum minuta docendo demittunt et conterunt: fies similis illis qui invenerunt ista..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ardentes boletos et raptim indumento suo mersatos demittunt paene fumantes, quos deinde restinguant niuatis potionibus. Videbis, inquam, quosdam..."ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...uires habeat: nec secunda sapientem euehunt nec aduersa demittunt; laborauit enim semper ut in se plurimum poneret..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...languida de scopulis sidunt freta, pigrius haerent nubila, demittunt extrema cacumina siluae, pluraque laxato ceciderunt sidera caelo. primus..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...aedes. hinc totam infelix vulgatur fama per urbem: demittunt mentes, it scissa veste Latinus coniugis attonitus fatis urbisque..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...obiectae salsa spumant aspergine cautes, ipse latet: gemino demittunt bracchia muro turriti scopuli refugitque ab litore templum. quattuor..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...nati, casta pudicitiam seruat domus, ubera uaccae lactea demittunt, pinguesque in gramine laeto inter se aduersis luctantur cornibus..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...vicerunt, efferunt se laetitia, victi debilitantur animosque demittunt. quorum sine causa fieri nihil putandum est. [43] Est enim..."