tumere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tumeo, tumere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
swell, become inflated; be puffed up; be bombastic; be swollen with conceit;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
de Spectaculis
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) from EPIGRAMMATON LIBRI
"...gratum nautis sidus fulgere Laconum lataque perspicuo uela tumere sinu. Quis tantas liquidis artes inuenit in undis..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vultu, osque meum sensi pando occallescere rostro, colla tumere toris, et qua modo pocula parte sumpta mihi fuerant..."
