diffidet
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;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...permansurum, quod fragile et caducum sit? qui autem diffidet perpetuitati bonorum suorum, timeat necesse est, ne aliquando amissis..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...videbit anus. Si doctus videare rudi, petulansve pudenti, Diffidet miserae protinus illa sibi. Inde fit, ut quae..."
