dirimat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dirimo, dirimere, diremi, diremptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pull/break/take apart; cleave; sort (votes); break up/dissolve (joint activity);; divide; separate/cut off/remove; delay/interrupt temporally/put off/frustrate;; cause to diverge;; draw a line/boundary; settle, impose decision on (dispute);
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Europa, quamuis Byzantion arto Pontus et ostriferam dirimat Calchedona cursu, Euxinumque ferens paruo ruat ore Propontis. Sigeasque petit..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...percurre gentes: te licet terra ultimo summota mundo dirimat Oceani plagis orbemque nostris pedibus obuersum colas, licet..."
