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
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...verbo "descendo" non "descendi", sed "descendidi" dixerunt. "Poposci", "momordi", "pupugi", "cucurri" probabiliter dici videtur, atque ita nunc omnes..."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..."