enerves
Dictionary entries
- Entry →enervis, enervis, enerve:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
powerless, weak; nerveless, feeble, languid; limp/slack/not taut (objects);
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.) - Entry →enervo, enervare, enervavi, enervatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
weaken, enervate; make effeminate; deprive of vigor; cut/remove sinews from;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...subducere iugo collum. In primis autem respuendae voluptates:enervant et effeminant et multum petunt, multum autem a fortuna..." - L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...onus; relinque corporis atque animi voluptates, molliunt et enervant; relinque ambitum, tumida res est, vana, ventosa, nullum habet..." - L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ista difficilia sunt natura, sed nos fluvidi et enerves. Magno animo de rebus magnis iudicandum est; alioqui videbitur..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...sociorum utilitatibus. Visum est spectaculum inde non enerve, nec fluxum, nec quod animos virorum molliret et frangeret..."