detestor
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. 1st - Entry →detestor, detestoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
curser; one who detests;
nom. sg.voc. sg. - 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. 1st
Examples
- A
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...enim "deprecor" a Catullo dictum est, quasi "detestor" vel "exsecror" vel "depello" vel "abominor": 6contra autem valet..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...omnium fit culpa paucarum scelus? Hi. Detestor omnis, horreo fugio execror. sit ratio, sit natura, sit dirus furor..." - T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iuvenem tamquam furiam facemque huius belli odi ac detestor; nec dedendum solum id piaculum rupti foederis..."
