detrahens
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...unum malum turpitudo, cetera uilis turba rerum nec detrahens quicquam beatae uitae nec adiciens, sine auctu ac detrimento..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...saepe, dum senatus cogeretur, nihil operae rei publicae detrahens. quo magis tum in summo otio maximaque copia quasi..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...duceret; comites, pecuniam, argentum, instrumentum, quod haberet, nihil <detrahens habere sineret; Bithys, filius Cotyis,> regis Thracum, obsidibus..."