frustratur
Dictionary entries
- 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. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →frustror, frustrari, frustratus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- 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. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...face, exoptata optingent. ARG. Vt consuevere, homines Salus frustratur et Fortuna. LEON. Ego caput huic argento fui hodie..." - T
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mirum est magis. AMPH. Nescio quis praestigiator hanc frustratur mulierem. ALC. Per supremi regis regnum iuro et matrem..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...adlisa locis reiecta sonorem reddit et inter dum frustratur imagine verbi. Quae bene cum videas, rationem reddere possis..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...uires suas prona et siue successit superba, siue frustratur insana; ne repulsa quidem in taedium acta, ubi aduersarium..." 
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...decepta reliquit. i precor atque istum quo me frustratur amorem vince ~precor~ patriis ut tandem evadere tectis audeat..."- P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...petiere rates, pars tollere vocem exiguam: inceptus clamor frustratur hiantis. Atque hic Priamiden laniatum corpore toto Deiphobum videt..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...parua res, et ignaui cuiusque tenuissumas spes frustratur. Quae tamen quamuis ampla, quoniam seruiti pretium ostentaretur, cuius torpedinis..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...audacia: raris sagittis neque clausos exterret et semet frustratur. Adiabeni cum promovere scalas et machinamenta inciperent, facile detrusi..."