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
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..."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..."
