dimittuntur
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;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...utique cum sentit venisse noctem, quando umbrae feliciores dimittuntur ad matres. at vero, si qua inter manes colloquia..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iugum missi, cum singulis vestimentis ignominiae cladisque pleni dimittuntur; et cum haud procul urbe Tusculo consedissent, vetere Tusculanorum..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...factoque senatus consulto ut urbe excederent Volsci, praecones dimittuntur qui omnes eos proficisci ante noctem iuberent. Ingens pavor..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...tauro paria sint. Ita fiducia quam argumentis purgatiores dimittuntur. Obviam fuere. Audaciter. Et Poeni ferunt adversus . . . LIBER TERTIVS..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...obversabantur advocati, silentium longum; tandem a praetore nuntius. Dimittuntur centumviri, eximitur dies me gaudente, qui umquam ita paratus..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...audiendo difficultas, nulla in respondendo mora: adeunt statim, dimittuntur statim: tandemque principis fores exclusa legationum turba non obsidet..."