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
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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..." - M
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..." - M
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..."