diriment
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);
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...porticibus disponat auos, intactior omni crinibus effusis bellum dirimente Sabina, rara auis in terris nigroque simillima cycno, quis..." 
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...scopulis et summo uertice montis spumea porrecti dirimentes terga profundi prosequimur uisu, donec lassauit euntes lux oculos longumque..."- T
Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...populi principis terrarum omnium legatos. in conspectu steterunt, dirimente amni, paulisper internuntiando cunctatio fuit, utri transgrederentur. aliquid illi..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Celtiberis praegredientibus ad urbem Amtorgim in conspectu hostium dirimente amni ponunt castra. ibi Cn. Scipio cum quibus ante..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...opera enituit. Consul copias contra hostem educit; parvo dirimente intervallo castra ponit. Proxima inde nocte Volsci, discordia Romana..."