Meaning of de | Babel Free
[ˈdeː]Definitions
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of; concerning; about with-ablative
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from, away from, down from, out of; in general to indicate the person or place from which any thing is taken, etc., with verbs of taking away, depriving, demanding, requesting, inquiring, buying; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., and their compounds. with-ablative
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with petere, of a place with-ablative
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of persons Late-Latin, with-ablative
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from, away from, to indicate the place from which someone or something departs or withdraws. with-ablative
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over, in reference to the people subjugated when celebrating a Roman victory with-ablative
Examples
“actum est de aliquo”
It is over for someone, someone’s fate is sealed
“de rebus mathematicis”
concerning mathematical things
“De introductione religionis Christianæ in Islandiam.”
Of the introduction of Christianity to Iceland.
“emere de aliquo”
to buy from someone
“aliquid mercari de aliquo”
to buy something from someone
“Saepe hoc audivi de patre.”
I have often heard this from Father.
“De mausoleo exaudita vox est.”
A voice was heard from the mausoleum.
“Ut sibi liceret discere id de me...”
Just as he himself permitted for me to learn...
“Hamum de cubiculo ut e navicula jacere.”
“Brassica de capite et de oculis omnia (mala) deducet.”
“De digito anulum detraho.”
From the finger I pull the ring.
“de matris complexu aliquem avellere atque abstrahere”
to rip someone away from the embrace of their mother and drag them away
“Nomen suum de tabula sustulit.”
He removed his name from the tablet.
“Ferrum de manibus extorsimus.”
We tore the sword from their hands.
“Juris utilitas vel a peritis vel de libris depromi potest.”
The utility of a law is able to be produced either from an expert or from books.
“de caelo aliquid demittere”
to bring down something from the sky
“De vicino terra petita solo.”
Earth brought from the nearby soil
“Peto de te.”
I beg of thee.
“Animam de corpore mitto.”
I release the spirit from the body.
“Aliquo quom jam sucus de corpore cessit.”
Somehow the spirit has already passed somewhere from the body.
“Civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent.”
He persuaded the people to go forth from their territories with all their possessions.
“decedere de provincia”
to retire from office
“de vita decedere”
to withdraw from life
“exire de vita”
to exit out of life
“de triclinio, de cubiculo exire”
to go out from the triclinium, from the cubiculum
“de castris procedere”
to proceed out of the military camps
“Decido de lecto praeceps.”
I fall down from the bed headlong.
“de muro se deicere”
to throw oneself down from the wall
“de sella exsilire”
to jump from the stool
“nec ex equo vel de muro etc., hostem destinare”
to aim at the enemy from neither the horse nor the wall
“De altera parte tertia Sequanos decedere juberet.”
He ordered the Sequani to withdraw from another third part.
“de Germanis”
over the Germans
“de Britannis”
over the Britons
CEFR level
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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