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
- P
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..." - T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legem curiatam de imperio ferenti triste omen diem diffidit, quod Faucia curia fuit principium, duabus insignis cladibus, captae..."