descensuras
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. fut. act. part.
Examples
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...edacibus et se ultraquam capiunt farcientibus), facile descensura, facile reditura. Indein omnem vitam unguento abstinemus, quoniam optimus odor..."
Liber Undecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...prius omnia planctu implet et ex muris ceu descensura profatur: 'comprime tela manu paulumque hanc respice turrem, frater..."