dirimerentur
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. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...exercitus vocati, summa rerum, ubi aves non admisissent, dirimerentur. Neque tum Tarquinius de equitum centuriis quicquam mutavit; numero..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...unum Angrivarii lato aggere extulerant quo a Cheruscis dirimerentur. hic pedes adstitit: equitem propinquis lucis texere ut ingressis..."
