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
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...atque incerto prae aegritudine. adsido: adcurrunt servi, soccos detrahunt; video alios festinare, lectos sternere, cenam adparare..."Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...appellatus. Ex his octo ventis alii quattuor ventos detrahunt atque id facere se dicunt Homero auctore, qui solos..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."