manderitis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mando, mandere, mandi, mansus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
chew, champ, masticate, gnaw; eat, devour; lay waste;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...optima matrum, terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevo vulnera dente iuvat ritusque referre Cyclopum, nec, nisi..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...lora detractasque scutis pelles, ubi fervida mollissent aqua, mandere conarentur nec muribus alioue animali abstinerent et omne herbarum..."