frustra
Dictionary entries
- Entry →frustra:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
in vain; for nothing, to no purpose;
- Entry →frustro, frustrare, frustravi, frustratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
disappoint, frustrate, deceive (w/false hope); escape/elude; baffle/evade; fail;; reject; delay; rob/defraud/cheat; pretend; refute (argument); corrupt/falsify;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- P
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...supplex animos summittere amori, ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat. 'Anna, vides toto properari litore circum: undique convenere..." - P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...pius Aeneas: 'equidem sic poscere ventos iamdudum et frustra cerno te tendere contra. flecte viam velis..." - P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...admoneat volitare cava sub imagine formae, inruat et frustra ferro diverberet umbras. Hinc via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...stabula alta Latinus habebat), ut stetit et frustra absentem respexit amicum: 'Euryale infelix, qua te regione reliqui? quave..." - P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...adfatur Achaten: 'suggere tela mihi, non ullum dextera frustra torserit in Rutulos, steterunt quae in corpore Graium Iliacis..." - P
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Strymoniamque gruem aut album deiecit olorem. multae illam frustra Tyrrhena per oppida matres optavere nurum; sola contenta Diana..." - P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...volvis sub pectore fluctus. verum age et inceptum frustra summitte furorem: do quod vis, et me victusque volensque..." - P
Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nuntio, et in tutum versis aquilonibus actam, ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes. Aspice bis senos laetantis agmine..."