desectas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deseco, desecare, desecui, desectus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
sever; cut off (limb/boundary); cut/carve from/out/away; cut/reap/mow (crop);
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...postquam non modo hordeum pabulumque omnibus locis herbaeque desectae, sed etiam frons ex arboribus deficiebat, corruptis equis macie..."Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...corpora bracchiis cum humero abscisis aut tota ceruice desecta diuisa a corpore capita patentiaque uiscera et foeditatem aliam..."
