diruunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diruo, diruere, dirui, dirutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demolish/wreck/destroy, pull down, raze to ground; overthrow; bankrupt (L+S);; have one's pay stopped/docked (of soldier); scatter, drive asunder (L+S);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...humanas manus effugiunt et ab his qui templa diruunt ac simulacra conflant nihil diuinitati nocetur, ita quidquid..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...crudelis peruenit. ignem deinde tectis iniciunt ac diruunt quae incendio absumi nequeunt; adeo uestigia quoque urbis exstinguere..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...ullum esse? Cum tabulas, signa, toreumata emunt, nova diruunt, alia aedificant, postremo omnibus modis pecuniam trahunt, vexant, tamen..."