momordi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mordeo, mordere, momordi, morsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
bite; sting; hurt, pain; vex; criticize, carp at; eat, consume; bite/cut into;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...verbo "descendo" non "descendi", sed "descendidi" dixerunt. "Poposci", "momordi", "pupugi", "cucurri" probabiliter dici videtur, atque ita nunc omnes..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tellus pressa genu nostro est, et harenas ore momordi. inferior virtute, meas devertor ad artes, elaborque viro longum..."