putrescunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →putresco, putrescere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rot, putrefy, be in a state of decay;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...artus perferre relicti, sed penitus pereunt convulsi conque putrescunt. ex ineunte aevo sic corporis atque animai mutua vitalis..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...liquore uertuntur; in quaedam uero terra umorque putrescunt, sicut bitumen et cetera huic similia. Haec est causa aquarum..."
