detrahere
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. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Timoleon
Cornelius Nepos
"...Demaenetus, in contione populi de rebus gestis eius detrahere coepisset ac nonnulla inveheretur in Timoleonta, dixit nunc demum..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...ordine traiecere aecumst aut aliquid prosum de summa detrahere hilum, commutare animum qui cumque adoritur et infit..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...philosophiam in has angustias ex sua maiestate detrahere: quanto satius est ire aperta via et recta quam sibi..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Lucili: disce gaudere. Existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates qui fortuita summoveo, qui spes, dulcissima oblectamenta, devitandas..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ignem et aquam mutabilis sit, non detrahere aliunde causas flammarum nouas ; ipse enim se mouendo accendit..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...reddis? Quid illum nimis ex alto tecum agentem detrahere cupis? Quid illum oblatrantem tibi, humilem quidem et contemptum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...huius libera et nullis adstricta uinculis religio et detrahere aliquid potest et adicere et sententiam suam, non prout..."Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...defraudato. LIB. Maxumas nugas agis: nudo detrahere vestimenta me iubes. defraudem te ego? age sis, tu sine pennis..."
