diffunderent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diffundo, diffundere, diffundi, diffusus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
diffuse; spread/pour out/widely; bottle/draw off; squander, distribute lavishly;; expand/enlarge; spread/extend over area/time; relax/cheer up/free of restraint;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...puncto cernuntur lapsa diei per totum caeli spatium diffundere sese perque volare mare ac terras caelumque rigare. quid..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...niues quam quomodo seruentur, quoniam non contenti uina diffundere, ueteraria per sapores aetatesque disponere, inuenimus quomodo stiparemus niuem..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...nutritosque mihi scandis, Patrocle, iugales: ast ego pampineis diffundere bracchia thyrsis et tenuare colus—pudet haec taedetque fateri..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...more habilem suspenderat arcum venatrix, dederatque comam diffundere ventis, nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis. Ac prior, 'Heus..."Ars Amatoria III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Adicis, et rabidae tradis ovile lupae?' Parcite paucarum diffundere crimen in omnes; Spectetur meritis quaeque puella suis..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...comites. iam nox inducere terris umbras et caelo diffundere signa parabat: tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae ingerere..."