descendentes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →descendo, descendere, descendi, descensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
descend, climb/march/come/go/flow/run/hang down; dismount; penetrate/sink;; stoop; demean; drop/become lower (pitch); be reduced; trace descent/come down;
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part. - Entry →descendens, descendentis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
descendant; (pl.) posterity, descendants;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...submisit aut sustulit, in contrarium mota; illo enim descendente altior est, alto depressior. Saepe talis nubes a latere..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...spissius, et ex lacrimis in risum mota descendentes ab aure capillos meos lenta manu duxit et: "Facio, inquit..." 
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...qualis bello supremus apertis urbibus, aut pelago iam descendente carina. ut primum inuisi cupido data copia regis: 'hanc..."- T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnes uias urbis aditusque in forum obsidebant, uiros descendentes ad forum orantes ut florente re publica, crescente..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deincepsque alii servabant ordinem, in suum quisque locum descendentes, cum consul Romanus, priusquam totis viribus fulta constaret hostium..."
