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
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..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...lora detractasque scutis pelles, ubi fervida mollissent aqua, mandere conarentur nec muribus alioue animali abstinerent et omne herbarum..."