deprendunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deprendo, deprendere, deprendi, deprensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
seize/catch; catch napping/redhanded; surprise/pounce on; arrest; intercept;; discover, discern, recognize; detect; indicate, reveal; embarrass;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...cursum derigant placet, sed marcentis oscitantisque fata deprendunt, adeo ut quod apud maximum poetarum more oraculi dictum..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...mulcentur, [et] contortis excitantur, et stabilia probant, clauda deprendunt, redundantia ac nimia fastidiunt. Ideoque docti rationem componendi intellegunt..."