discentem
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quarum dominus uix tota uita indices perlegit? Onerat discentem turba, non instruit, multoque satius est paucis te auctoribus..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...brevior et vel ideo lucidior multo via neque discentem per ambages fatigabit, nec corpus orationis in parva momenta..."VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...vagae artis errorem. contentum fuisse medicum toto homine discentem primo putatis aspectu? egesta saepe vitalia, pertractata, diducta sunt..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Sergestum brevibusque vadis frustraque vocantem auxilia et fractis discentem currere remis. inde Gyan ipsamque ingenti mole Chimaeram consequitur..."