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Meaning of odi | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2
[ˈoː.diː]

Definitions

  1. to have an aversion towards, to hate, dislike
  2. second-person singular present active imperative of odiō
    active, form-of, imperative, present, second-person, singular
  3. to feel reluctant to, to hate to, to be loath to
    active, conjugation-4, deponent, perfect, with-infinitive

Conjugation

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Equivalents

English dislike to hate

Examples

“Quid est enim, Catilīna, quod tē iam in hāc urbe dēlectāre possit? — in quā nēmō est extrā istam coniūrātiōnem perditōrum hominum, quī tē nōn metuat, nēmō quī nōn ōderit.”

For what is there, Catiline, that can now delight you in this city? — in which there is no one outside that conspiracy of desperate men who does not fear you, no one who does not hate you.

“Persicōs ōdī, puer, apparātūs, displicent nexae philyrā corōnae.|trans=My boy: I hate the filigree of Persia.Linden-sewn garlands chafe me with their glamor.”

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“Nōn adōrābis ea, neque colēs: ego sum Dominus Deus tuus fortis, zēlōtēs, vīsitāns inīquitātem patrum in fīliōs, in tertiam et quārtam generātiōnem eōrum quī ōdērunt mē.”

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

“Laetus in praesēns animus quod ultrā est ōderit cūrāre […]”

And let the mind that’s happy in the moment ’Bout that which lies before be loath to worry

CEFR level

C2
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