describent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →describo, describere, descripsi, descriptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
describe/draw, mark/trace out; copy/transcribe/write; establish (law/right)
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...videri; omnia ista humanae vitae formidines putat. Describe captivitatem, verbera, catenas, egestatem et membrorum lacerationes vel per morbum..." - P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: tu regere imperio populos, Romane..."