detrahit
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quid eum velit *** homo cruminam sibi de collo detrahit, minas viginti mihi dat. accipio libens, condo in cruminam..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mare non augescere magnum. Praeterea magnam sol partem detrahit aestu. quippe videmus enim vestis umore madentis exsiccare suis..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...pulcherrimam, non lucro captus nec varietate fortunae perterritus; detrahit amicitiae maiestatem suam qui illam parat ad bonos casus..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...gratiae minimum apud promittentem remanet, quia auctori detrahit, quisquis post illum rogandus est. Hoc itaque curae hebebis..." - L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...ille, qui, quod alteri donat, sibi detrahit, ita clementem vocabo non in alieno dolore facilem..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quod dedit; uirtutem autem non dat, ideo nec detrahit: libera est, inuiolabilis, inmota, inconcussa, sic contra casus indurata..." - L
Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...sortita fratris more Iunonis toros. Ne. Incesta genetrix detrahit generi fidem, animusque numquam coniugis iunctus mihi. Se. Teneris..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...clara monili gestat pelagi dona rubentis, nec gemmiferas detrahit aures lapis Eoa lectus in unda, nec Sidonio mollis..."
