effundebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →effundo, effundere, effudi, effusus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pour out/away/off; allow to drain; shower; volley (missiles); send/stream forth;; shed (blood/tears); discharge (vomit/urine), debouch, emit; flow out, overflow;; break out; bear/yield/bring forth; expend/use up; unseat, eject/drop/discard;; stretch/spread out, extend; spread (sail); loosen/slacken/fling, give rein;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...pistoria, avis, cocos, pistores. Plus vini sub mensa effundebatur, quam aliquis in cella habet. Phantasia, non homo. Inclinatis..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...plures ex urbe adfluebant, et iam omnis multitudo effundebatur, timor incessit Liuium, ne et auxiliares circumuenirentur et nauibus..."
