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descendo
intransitive verb III conjugation

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1 to descend, to climb, to march, to come, to go, to flow, to run, to hang down
2 to dismount
3 to penetrate, to sink
4 to stoop
5 to demean
6 (pitch) to drop, to become lower
7 to be reduced
8 to trace
9 to descent, to come down

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Locutions, idioms and examples

ad aliquid descendo = to approach someone || ad forum descendo = to go down to the forum || ad petitionem descendo || ad ludum descendo = to indulge in the game || ad pugnam descendo || ad certamen descendo = to get into the fight || ab Alpibus descendo = to descend from the Alps || ad accusandum descendo = to bring oneself to be the accuser || a Platone descendo = to descend from Plato || ad comitia descendo = to go to electoral meetings || ad extrema descendo = to go to extremes || in aequum descendo || ad preces descendo || ad naviculas nostras descendere = to descent towards our boats || ad omnia descendo || e caelo descendo || ad Styge descendo || e tribunali descendo || de caelo demittor descendo || caelo descendo || iam descendit in causam || descendo or desilio ad pedes || ad societates calamitatum descendere || qua mons descendit in aequum || Anagnini cum essent devii descenderunt || alter tibi descendit de Palatio || ad aequilibrium aquae descendant = to descend to within an inch from the surface of the water || ad imas umbras descendere = to go down to the shadows (= in the deepest) || ad innocentium supplicia descendo = to decide to execute the innocent || ad intellectum audientis descendere = to stoop down to the level of intelligence of the listening student || ad gravissimas verborum contumelias descenderunt = they lost control using insulting words of exceptional harshness || cometes retroiens ipse descendit || cogunt me preces descendere in omnes || ad pugnam qui rhetorica descendit ab umbra || ad mare proxime Neapolim descendit = he came down towards the sea near Naples || a communibus ad quaedam propria descendunt = from general features they descend to specific characteristics || a vita pastorali ad agriculturam descendo = to transfer from stock raising to farming || ad vadimonium venio (or occurro, or descendo) || ad eius modi consilium descendo = to decide to take that step || Ambiorigem ad eius modi consilium descendisse || Astures per id tempus ingenti agmine a montibus niveis descenderant