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
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..."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..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnes uias urbis aditusque in forum obsidebant, uiros descendentes ad forum orantes ut florente re publica, crescente..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deincepsque alii servabant ordinem, in suum quisque locum descendentes, cum consul Romanus, priusquam totis viribus fulta constaret hostium..."
