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
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mina deminui una modo quinque nummos: mihi detraxi partem Herculaneam. nam hoc adsimile est quasi de fluvio..."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..."