detestantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detesto, detestare, -, detestatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
call down solemn curse on, execrate; detest/loathe; avert, ward off by entreaty;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →detestor, detestari, detestatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
call down solemn curse on, execrate; detest/loathe; avert, ward off by entreaty;
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ueni,' inquit 'Antigone, ut orbitas mihi, quam alii detestantur parentes, optabilis esse debeat, regnum, quod a patruo..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ipsae libertatem quam uiduitas et orbitas facit detestantur. in uestro arbitrio suum ornatum quam in legis malunt esse..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...ostentatio doloris. Convenitur ad eum mira celebritate. Cuncti detestantur oderunt, et quasi probent quasi diligant, cursant frequentant, utque..."