diffusis
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;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →diffusus, diffusa -um, diffusior -or -us, diffusissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spread out; wide; extending/covering widely; extensive/expansive (writing);
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all)
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...uiuis, nulla cum ratione facis. Sunt tibi, confiteor, diffusi iugera campi, urbanique tenent praedia multa lares, et seruit..."- L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...fluminum et ex uno fonte in occidentem orientemque diffusi amnes et summis cacuminibus nemora nutantia et tantum siluarum..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...poetam laudasti". Itaque ex turpissima lite in risum diffusi pacatius ad reliqua secessimus. <. . .> Rursus in memoriam revocatus iniuriae..." - M
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...alia causa erroris tanti tam longe lateque diffusi, nisi quod is, qui voluptatem summum bonum esse decernit..."
