dimittatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dimitto, dimittere, dimisi, dimissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
send away/off; allow to go, let go/off; disband, discharge, dismiss (soldiers);; dissolve (assembly); part with; put away; divorce; pay off, settle (debt);; release, set free; allow to escape/slip away; shake off/scatter/shed;; discontinue, renounce, abandon/forsake, forgo, give up (activity); dispatch;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...quod secum comites educit asellas exul Hyperboreum si dimittatur ad axem. sed quae mutatis inducitur atque fouetur..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...parte fatentur etiam qui dicunt esse minuendam: tota dimittatur, nihil profutura est. Sine illa facilius rectiusque scelera tollentur..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ipsum filium, qualis blandissimus erat, et, si dimittatur, videbis. subito ante me diductis constitit tenebris, non ille pallens..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...acie fugerit in Siciliam deportatum ne prius inde dimittatur quam hostis ex Italia decesserit et hoc idem..."