detracturus
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;
nom. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
- L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...ordinem redegerat carcerem intrauit, ignominiam ipsi loco detracturus; neque enim poterat carcer uideri in quo Socrates erat..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...perductus esset precibus, tum etiam adulescentia sua excusat, detracturus alioqui plurimum auctoritatis sibi, in causa praesertim suspecta..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...iniuriam si quid adiecturus sibi, non si quid detracturus, fuit. CXVI. Et Servius sulpicius insignem non inmerito famam..."
