tumeant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tumeo, tumere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
swell, become inflated; be puffed up; be bombastic; be swollen with conceit;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...respiciens teneat virides velatus habenas ut pater, nivea tumeant ut cornua mitra et sacer ut Bacchum referat scyphus..."- P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...advenisse, nec multum virium a tergo, quoniam Galliae tumeant et deserere Rheni ripam inrupturis tam infestis nationibus..."