diffidant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diffido, diffidere, diffisus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Semideponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
distrust; despair; (w/DAT) lack confidence (in), despair (of); expect not;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mercatust de lenone virginem. valete, ut hostes vestri diffidant sibi.— ACTVS I I.i SCEPARNIO Pro di immortales, tempestatem..."
Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...culta maniplis; sed ne sperne virum et comptis diffide capillis. Campesus hic spoliis in tigri s. ille profundo..."Liber V
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...quidquam ab his praesidi sperent, qui suis rebus diffidant; sese tamen hoc esse in Ciceronem populumque Romanum animo..."