despumet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despumo, despumare, despumavi, despumatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
skim, remove/draw froth/foam/scum (from); stop foaming, settle; deposit foam;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...patitur tantos cantu depressa labores 505donec suppositas propior despumet in herbas. hos scelerum ritus, haec dirae crimina gentiseffera..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...minuatur, non ut consumatur calor nimiusque ille feruor despumet. Lusus quoque proderunt; modica enim uoluptas laxat animos..."