luente
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);
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nefas a me quoque absit; quod scelus miseri luent? scelus est Iason genitor et maius scelus Medea mater..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Atrius Umber et ceteri nefariae seditionis auctores sanguine luent quod admiserunt. uobis supplicii eorum spectaculum non modo..."