detracte
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detraho, detrahere, detraxi, detractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drag/pull/strip/take down/away/off; remove; exclude, omit, cut out; subtract;; detract (from in speech), disparage; lessen, cause diminishment/detriment;; detach, dislodge (troops); draw (into action); demolish; abstract, derive;; draw off (blood); promote discharge of; force down, induce to come down;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Giton sub insolito fasce durabat, et mercennarius Corax, detractator ministerii, posita frequentius sarcina male dicebat properantibus, affirmabatque..." - P
Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...verbera plura ferunt, quam quos iuvat usus aratri, detractant prensi dum iuga prima boves. asper equus duris contunditur..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caesa eo die scribit; Cato ipse, haud sane detractator laudum suarum, multos caesos ait, numerum non adscribit. Tria..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...statuunt. Instruitur acies, nec Veiens hostis Etruscaeque legiones detractant. Prope certa spes erat non magis secum pugnaturos quam..."