emicare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →emico, emicare, emicui, emicatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
leap/dash/bolt/jump/spurt/burst/break/shine out; spring/dart/shoot forth/up;; appear suddenly/quickly; make sudden movement up/out; give a jump; stand out;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...coepit artem facere ludicram atque in pectus emicare. sed ego cesso currere? IV.iv foras, lumbrice, qui sub terra..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...contra causa ignium sit ; quos non uidemus emicare nisi impendente caelo ; serenum sine fulmine est. Non lial..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Pharo noctibus ad regendos navium cursus ignes emicarent; pronuntiatoque militi donativo centenis viritim denariis, quasi omne exemplum liberalitatis..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erat, cum scaturrig es turbidae primo et tenues emicare, dein liquidam multamque fundere aquam uelut deum dono coeperunt..."