diffusus
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;
nom. sg. 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);
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uitamet quantum natura petat. non erigit aegrosnobilis ignoto diffusus consule Bacchus,non auro murraque bibunt, sed gurgite puro..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...amittit uires, nisi robore densaeoccurrunt siluae, spatio diffusus inani,utque perit magnus nullis obstantibus ignis,sic hostes mihi..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...decimo iam uincitis anno, 300hoc cruor Arctois meruit diffusus in aruisuolneraque et mortes hiemesque sub Alpibus actae..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...corpore concreto circum datus undique saepsit et late diffusus in omnis undique partis omnia sic avido complexu cetera..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...nunc uero magnas solitudines peruagatus et in paludes diffusus gentibus sparsus circa Philas primum ex uago et errante..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...permeat. Ab aethere lucidissimo aer in terram usque diffusus est, aggilior quidem tenuiorque et altior terris nec minus..." - L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...spiritus per omnia maxima ac minima aequali intentione diffusus, siue fatum et inmutabilis causarum inter se cohaerentium series..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...provocare si prasinus proximis circensibus primam palmam". [LXXI] Diffusus hac contentione Trimalchio: "Amici, inquit, et servi homines sunt..."