lamberet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lambo, lambere, lambi, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lick; lap/lick/suck up, absorb; wash/bathe; surround; fondle/caress (L+S); fawn;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...torquet convivam fame.Quae cum lagonae collum frustra lamberet,peregrinam sic locutam volucrem accepimus:'Sua quisque exempla debet aequo..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...quum velut quodam specu inclusa, nunc propinquorum sanguinem lamberet, nunc se ad clarissimorum civium strages caedesque proferret. Obversabantur..."