detrahas
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...sunt ualent: ignem spiritus concitat; aquae, si uentum detrahas, inertes sunt: tunc demum impetum sumunt, cum illas agit..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...controversiis impetum dicendi prohoemio narratione argumentis, quae si detrahas id fere supererit quo suasoriae constant, verum id quoque..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quaestionem uelimus. Nam si parti utrilibet omnino alteram detrahas, natura etiam sine doctrina multum ualebit, doctrina nulla esse..."