fieri
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fio, feri, factus sum:
Verb · Semideponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
happen, come about; result (from); take place, be held, occur, arise (event);; be made/created/instituted/elected/appointed/given; be prepared/done; develop;; be made/become; (facio PASS); [fiat => so be it, very well; it is being done];
pres. act. infin.
Examples
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...quidquid in arte mea possum promittere curae, quod fieri ferro liquidove potest electro, quantum ignes animaeque valent, absiste..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...vetus indigenas nomen mutare Latinos neu Troas fieri iubeas Teucrosque vocari aut vocem mutare viros aut vertere vestem..."Ecloga V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Spargite humum foliis, inducite fontibus umbras, pastores (mandat fieri sibi talia Daphnis), et tumulum facite, et tumulo superaddite..."Ecloga VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Moeris (nascuntur pluruma Ponto); his ego saepe lupum fieri et se condere siluis Moerim, saepe animas imis excire..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium. omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne prodest..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...nihil dicimus? Quos quidem ego, si ullo modo fieri possit, non tam ulcisci studeo quam sanare sibi ipsos..."In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...publicae viros, ad me vocavi, rem exposui, quid fieri placeret, ostendi. Illi autem, qui omnia de re publica..."Res Gestae II
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...morem maiorem delatum recepi. Quae tum per me fieri senatus] v[o]luit, per trib..."