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
- P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - G
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - C
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..."