tumebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tumeo, tumere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
swell, become inflated; be puffed up; be bombastic; be swollen with conceit;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...subrexit hiatus; saeuus et intranti populo, iam nigra tumebat colla minax, iam sparsa solo turbauerat ossa, ni deus..."- P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...spinae tantummodo crate teneri. auxerat articulos macies, genuumque tumebat orbis, et inmodico prodibant tubere tali. 'Hanc procul..."