detrahunt
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...atque incerto prae aegritudine. adsido: adcurrunt servi, soccos detrahunt; video alios festinare, lectos sternere, cenam adparare..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...appellatus. Ex his octo ventis alii quattuor ventos detrahunt atque id facere se dicunt Homero auctore, qui solos..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tantum an inpediat. Eodem modo virtuti opposita nihil detrahunt: non est minor, sed minus fulget. Nobis forsitan..." - L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...malum verum est? illic scilicet, si ista animum detrahunt, si ad confessionem servitutis adducunt, si illi paenitentiam..." - G
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...circi agunt insiliuntque defessos et ad terram cornibus detrahunt. Gladiatoria munera plurifariam ac multiplicia exhibuit: anniversarium in castris..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...bene conlocatum? Neque, si pravi pedes vim detrahunt rebus, ut sotadeorum et galliamborum et quorundam in oratione simili..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...partium fine, non aliter quam facientibus iter multum detrahunt fatigationis notata inscriptis lapidibus spatia. XXIII. Nam et exhausti..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quoque nullam quaestionem extra haec putant. Quidam detrahunt duas partis, numerum et occasionem, et pro illo quem dixi..."
