maesta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maesto, maestare, maestavi, maestatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grieve, make sad; afflict (L+S);
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →maestus, maesta -um, maestior -or -us, maestissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sad/unhappy; mournful/gloomy; mourning; stern/grim; ill-omened/inauspicious;
abl. sg. (f.)acc. pl. (n.)nom. sg. (f.)nom. pl. (n.)voc. sg. (f.)voc. pl. (n.)
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tuba uerberet aures. 25crastina dira quies et imagine maesta diurnaundique funestas acies feret, undique bellum.unde pares somnos populi..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...taedet uitae, laeto sed tempore, coniunx, 740uenit maesta dies et quam nimiumque parumquedistulimus; iam totus adest in proelia..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...horror inest. tum plurima nigrisfontibus unda cadit, simulacraque maesta deorumarte carent caesisque extant informia truncis.ipse situs putrique facit..."Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ciuilia bella moueret contentus quo Sulla fuit.' sic maesta senectus praeteritique memor flebat metuensque futuri. at non magnanimi..."Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...atroci re ac tam misera atque maesta iniuriae publicae contestatione ecquid est, quod aut ampliter insigniterque aut lacrimose..."Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...inceste nubendi tempore in ipso hostia concideret mactatu maesta parentis, exitus ut classi felix faustusque daretur. tantum religio..."Satura II
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...panem, quod nec in Assyrio pharetrata Sameramis orbe maesta nec Actiaca fecit Cleopatra carina. hic nullus uerbis pudor..."Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...mittitque rates recipitque Selinus, 260in procerum coetu tandem maesta ora resoluituocibus his Magnus: 'comites bellique fugaequeatque instar patriae..."