detraxi
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mina deminui una modo quinque nummos: mihi detraxi partem Herculaneam. nam hoc adsimile est quasi de fluvio..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...agimus ut exerceatur vox, sed ut exerceat. Detraxi tibi non pusillum negotii: una mercedula et +unum graecum..."