depresso
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);
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part. - 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;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
- T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...simili penetrant auris primordia forma, cum tuba depresso graviter sub murmure mugit et reboat raucum retro cita barbita..." - L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...nunc aperto et libero caelo, ex humili atque depresso in eum emicuit locum, quisquis ille est, qui solutas..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...umor liquitur et Zephyro putris se glaeba resoluit, depresso incipiat iam tum mihi taurus aratro ingemere et sulco..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vetaris, ruris honorati tantum tibi, Cipe, dedere, quantum depresso subiectis bobus aratro conplecti posses ad finem lucis..." - G
Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...farti nec testaceo opere praecincti. Claudiopolitani quoque in depresso loco, imminente etiam monte ingens balineum defodiunt magis quam..."