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
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..."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..."