deperdit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deperdo, deperdere, deperdidi, deperditus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lose permanently/utterly (destruction); be deprived/desperate; destroy, ruin;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...truncis nemus: sic nostra longum forma percurrens iter deperdit aliquid semper et fulget minus, nec illa uenus..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...carpitur, stilus quoque intermissione paulum admodum de celeritate deperdit: promptum hoc et in expedito positum exercitatione sola continetur..."