diffidite
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. imp. 2nd
Examples
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...egit habena et media adversi liquefacto tempora plumbo diffidit ac multa porrectum extendit harena. Tum primum bello celerem..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legem curiatam de imperio ferenti triste omen diem diffidit, quod Faucia curia fuit principium, duabus insignis cladibus, captae..."