devorares
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devoro, devorare, devoravi, devoratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
devour, consume; swallow, gulp down; engulf/ingulf, absorb, drink in;; use up; waste; swallow, endure, put up with; repress/suppress, check (emotion);
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Asse panem quem emisses, non potuisses cum altero devorare. Nunc oculum bublum vidi maiorem. Heu heu, quotidie peius..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...malum fovetis? aut quid hic potest nisi uncta devorare patrimonia? eone nomine urbis opulentissime socer generque, perdidistis omnia..."
