lancinat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lancino, lancinare, lancinavi, lancinatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tear in/to pieces, rend (apart), mangle;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quae non tantum uiritim furit sed gentes totas lancinat, sed urbes et flumina et tuta ab omni sensu..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...licet medioque raptum merseris caelo diem, sero occidisti. Lancinat natos pater artusque mandit ore funesto suos; nitet fluente..."