mordetur
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. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...vocem angustam, qua deterius nec ille sonat quo mordetur gallina marito? haec eadem licet et nobis laudare..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...illum partibus esse compositum: altera est irrationalis, haec mordetur, uritur, dolet; altera rationalis, haec inconcussas opiniones habet, intrepida..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...corpus, de sexu transire iubet. tamen anxia curis mordetur puerique timet Cytherea dolores. nondum pulchra ducis clementia coeperat..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cunctaque magna facit; quibus inritata dolore Cecropis occulto mordetur et anxia nocte anxia luce gemit lentaque miserrima tabe..."