devorari
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);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...recens est dator, dum calet, devorari decet iam. boni me viri pauperant, improbi augent; poplo strenui, mi improbi..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...pronuntiatio primum si verba tota exierint, quorum pars devorari, pars destitui solet, plerisque extremas syllabas non perferentibus..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...potius est a possessore quod possidetur, ut "hominem devorari", cuius patrimonium consumatur: quo modo fiunt innumerabiles species. XXVI..."