neca
Dictionary entries
- Entry →neco, necare, necavi, necatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
kill/murder; put to death; suppress, destroy; kill (plant); quench/drown (fire);
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...frons decet tristis senem. Quid te coerces et necas rectam indolem? seges illa magnum fenus agricolae dabit quaecumque..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...amoris subactus exueret obsequium in matrem seque [Se]necae permitteret, ex cuius familiaribus Annaeus Serenus simulatione amoris adversus..."
