depressi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deprimo, deprimere, depressi, depressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
suppress/repress/depress/silence, force//weigh/keep down, disparage; sink;; humble, reduce position/fortune/value; lower pitch (sound)/brightness (color);
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.sg. perf. act. ind. 1st - Entry →depressus, depressa -um, depressior -or -us, depressissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
low/low-lying, deep down; at/having low elevation; low-pitched/subdued (sound);; reaching/sloping down; base/mean, pedestrian, lacking moral/style; depressed;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...meridianum orbis circulum et ad partem axis infimam depressi inferiores et humiles per suprema aequoris euntes protrudunt magis..."Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...radicibus montis ferebatur, ut nullam in partem depressis fossis derivari posset. Erat autem oppidanis difficilis et praeruptus..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...aquarum iter. incuria operis manifesta fuit, haud satis depressi ad lacus ima vel media. eoque tempore interiecto altius..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...habiles, per aestuaria et fossas adegit; luntribusque hostium depressis et exturbato Gannasco, ubi praesentia satis composita sunt, legiones..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...enim et varie nunc attollebatur, nunc residebat; excelsa depressis, exilia plenis, severis iucunda mutabat, omnia ingenio pari. Commendabat..."
