detritas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detritus, detrita, detritum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
worn out; trite, hackneyed;
acc. pl. (f.) - Entry →detero, deterere, detrivi, detritus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rub/wear/file away/down; remove, rub off/out; wear down to smooth surface;; thresh (grain); pound; grind; chafe; impair/lessen/weaken; detract from; prune;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...copula "e" littera" inquit "detrita est." Item "locupletem" dictum ait ex conpositis vocibus, qui pleraque loca..." - T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...decrescit vomer in arvis, strataque iam volgi pedibus detrita viarum saxea conspicimus; tum portas propter aena signa manus..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...frequentissime servit. Nam illa in agendis causis iam detrita "pedem conferre" et "iugulum petere" et "sanguinem mittere" inde..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...diversis incitamentis, hi verberum notas, illi canitiem, plurimi detrita tegmina et nudum corpus exprobrantes. postremo eo furoris venere..."