submergere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →submergo, submergere, submersi, submersus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
plunge under, submerge;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- P
Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fatis. Pallasne exurere classem Argivom atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto, unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei? Ipsa..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iuvat esse sub undis et modo tota cava submergere membra palude, nunc proferre caput, summo modo gurgite nare..." - P
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...remigibus unum in latus inclinare atque ita navem submergere; sed neque ipsis promptus in rem subitam consensus..."