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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."