subrepens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →subrepo, subrepere, subrepsi, subreptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
creep (under/up to); move stealthily; ooze/seep (liquid); insinuate self;; come on gradually/imperceptibly/by degrees (conditions); steal along/on;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...gelido trepidant sub pectore fibrae,et noua desuetis subrepens uita medullismiscetur morti. tunc omnis palpitat artus,tenduntur nerui..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...eripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi, quae mihi subrepens imos ut torpor in artus expulit ex omni pectore laetitias..."
