helluari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →helluor, helluari, helluatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spend immoderately (eating/luxuries); be a glutton/gormandize; squander;
pres. infin.
Examples
- P
Adelphoe
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...uxor, si cesses, aut te amare cogitat aut helluari aut potare atque animo obsequi et tibi bene esse..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...sepulchrum", sic "ahenum", sic "vehemens", sic "incohare", sic "helluari", sic "halucinari", sic "honera", sic "honestum" dixerunt..." - M
Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...magis tum in summo otio maximaque copia quasi helluari libris, si hoc verbo in tam clara re utendum..."