deprimis
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...flamma, non ruina inferius adducet; haec una maiestas deprimi nescit. Nec proferri ultra nec referri potest; sic huius..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...illi et invictus animus est. Summitti te ac deprimi veto. Laborem si non recuses, parum est: posce. 'Quid..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...descendere non potest, sed ne ab externo quidem deprimi, quia in aethere nulli incerto corpori locus est ; certa..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...Atqui hoc dicit qui illam extolli uult et deprimi, quoniam laetitia ob recte factum clara magnificaque..." - L
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...unum genus uirtutis sit non inclinari nec deprimi, in diuitiis et temperantia et liberalitas et diligentia et dispositio..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...altitudinis inaedificari; fossam duplicem pedum denum quinum lateribus deprimi directis; turres excitari crebras in altitudinem trium tabulatorum, pontibus..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...pudorem. Non tu civium amplexus ad pedes tuos deprimis, nec osculum manu reddis. Manet Imperatori, quae prior oris..."