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..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...advenisse, nec multum virium a tergo, quoniam Galliae tumeant et deserere Rheni ripam inrupturis tam infestis nationibus..."