devoret
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. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...EVCL. Nunc petit, cum pollicetur; inhiat aurum ut devoret. altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera. nemini credo..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quaecumque aetas operam iuvandae studio memoriae dabit devoret initio taedium illud et scripta et lecta saepius revolvendi..."
