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descendentes

Dictionary entries

  • 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;

    Entry →
    acc. pl. pres. act. part.
    nom. pl. pres. act. part.
    voc. pl. pres. act. part.
  • descendens, descendentis:

    Common · Noun · 3rd declension

    Frequency:
    Very Rare
    Dictionary:
    Lewis & Short

    = descendant; (pl.) posterity, descendants;

    Entry →
    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..."
  • Publius Papinius Statius

    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..."

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