luam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →luo, luere, lui, lutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pay; pay fine, compensate/atone; [poenam ~ => suffer punishment as expiation];; atone, make amends for, expiate; compensate; liberate/set free; redeem (debt);; fulfill (promise), make good; discharge (debt); avert (trouble) by expiation;; wash, lave; cleanse, purge (L+S);
sg. fut. act. ind. 1stsg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...factura fui? nunc accipe poenas,sed quas sponte luam: quo sit tibi mollius aequor,certa fides regum totusque..."Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...plerisque antiquis orationibus. II. In his scriptum est: "Luam Saturni, Salaciam Neptuni, Horam Quirini, Virites Quirini, Maiam Volcani..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...tenebras; cur autem ego sanguine fraudes et periura luam regalis crimina noxae?' inde alii: 'sera ista fides..."