nutent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nuto, nutare, nutavi, nutatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
waver, give way;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sequatur; quando incedat per vias, contemplent, conspiciant omnes, nutent, nictent, sibilent, vellicent, vocent, molesti sint; occentent ostium: impleantur..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...replere fossas et summo gremium parare dorso, ne nutent sola, ne maligna sedes et pressis dubium cubile saxis..."