dormiebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dormio, dormire, dormivi, dormitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sleep, rest; be/fall asleep; behave as if asleep; be idle, do nothing;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd - Entry →dormeo, dormire, dormivi(ii), dormitus:
Verb · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sleep, rest; go to sleep, be/fall asleep; be idle, do nothing; (form for FUT);
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...convivio exigebat; usque in horam sextam fere dormiebat: hoc eius erat matutinum. Officium tamen suum, quo tutela urbis..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...priori fidem fecit. Puer in paedagogio mixtus pluribus dormiebat. Venerunt per fenestras — ita narrat — in tunicis albis..."
