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
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..."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..."
