effuse
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;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →effusus, effusa -um, effusior -or -us, effusissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
vast, wide, sprawling; disheveled, loose (hair/reins); disorderly; extravagant;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →effuse, effusius, effusissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Lesser
over a wide area, extensively; freely, in a disorderly manner; lavishly;
Examples
- M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Caelio: "si vidua libere, proterva petulanter, dives effuse, libidinosa meretricio more viveret, adulterum ego putarem si qui hanc..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...umquam nec feret ulla dies. Tu potius, ripis effuse capacibus amnis — sic aeternus eas — labere fine..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...palatos eos adorti Macedones, mixti pedites equitesque, fugientes effuse ad mare persecuti quingentos ferme occiderunt et non minus..." - T
Liber XLI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ueris in finis Histrorum exercitum introduxerunt; ubi cum effuse popularentur, dolor magis et indignatio diripi res suas cernentis..." - T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tamquam multitudine superarentur, repente tergis datis ad castra effuse fugerent: ipse intra uallum ad omnes portas instruxit copias..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...praesidio— erant autem duo milia uirorum fortium—effuse sequenti regi acriter obstitit, et Attalus, Eumenis frater, ab dextro..." - T
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...militum haud dubie se superari uidit, sublatis dolonibus effuse fugere intendit; mox idem et qui prope terram..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...plus amat." Indignatus puer, quod Scylacem tam effuse laudaret, catellam in terram deposuit hortatusque ut ad rixam properaret..."
