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..."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..."