detestatur
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;
sg. 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;
sg. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...suum non sine causa sed sine fine laudatum detestatur! Quam flebiles uoces exprimit in quadam ad Atticum epistula..." - M
XV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...integritatem puellae breviter probem? hanc, quam nunc pauper detestatur, accusat, amare mallet. Omnia, iudices, facinora, ni fallor, causas..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...meritumque nihil pater eicit urbe hostilique caput prece detestatur euntis. Pittheam profugo curru Troezena petebam iamque Corinthiaci carpebam..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...quos ipse cotidie fallit, in caput infelicis pueri detestatur. Velleius Blaesus ille locuples consularis novissima valetudine conflictabatur: cupiebat..."