discent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →disco, discere, didici, discitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
learn; hear, get to know, become acquainted with; acquire knowledge/skill of/in;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...verbosos, intempestivos, sibi placentes facit et ideo non discentes necessaria quia supervacua didicerunt? Quattuor milia librorum Didymus grammaticus..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quaestiones explicet, historias exponat, poemata enarret, tot illa discent quot audient. XV. "At enim emendationi praelectionique numerus obstat..."