deprimerer
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);
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...curator restituendi Capitolii dixisset voluisse se aream Capitolinam deprimere, ut pluribus gradibus in aedem conscenderetur suggestusque pro fastigii..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...gradus et certos modos extollere, deinde deprimere. Quid si velis deinde quemadmodum ambules discere? Admitte istos quos nova..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...factionis hominum uires augendo ius ac libertatem aliorum deprimerent. ueris initio Corinthum conuentu edicto uenit. ibi omnium ciuitatium..."