drip (v.) Copy link Outline I. To drop slowly down upon something1. stillo, 12. destillo, 1II. To be running wet1. stillo, 12. rōro, 1 (strictly, to drop with dew)3. māno, 14. fluo, xi., xum, 3 • drip (v.): I. To drop slowly down upon something: 1. stillo, 1: gore d.s from the steel, cruor s. ferro, Prop.: Tib.: v. to drop. 2. destillo, 1: v. TO TRICKLE DOWN. (Instillo is always trans.) II. To be running wet: 1. stillo, 1: a dagger d.ing (with blood), stillans pugio, Cic.: the stars d. with blood, sidera sanguine s., Ov. 2. rōro, 1 (strictly, to drop with dew): his (Notus') wings and garments d., r. pennaeque sinusque, Ov.: the brambles d. with blood, sanguine vepres r., Virg.: v. to drizzle. 3. māno, 1: a knife d.ing with blood, culter manans cruore, Liv. 4. fluo, xi., xum, 3: d.ing in wet clothes, madida fluens in veste, Virg.: to d. (or stream) with perspiration, sudore fluere, Liv. (diffluere, Phaedr.).
drip (subs.) Copy link • drip (subs.): stillĭcĭdium: the d. falling hollows stone, stillicidi casus lapidem cavat, Lucr.: legal rights respecting walls, lights, drip, jura parietum, luminum, stillicidiorum, Cic. to cause your d. to fall on your neighbour's house, stillicidium in alicujus (domum) projicere, Paul. Dig.
DRIP Copy link • DRIPv. TR., instillare, down on anything, alicui rei, in aliquid (☞ stillare is poetical). v. INTR., stillare; destillare (to drip down); from anything, stillare ex or de: rorare (in a dew-like or drizzling manner, ante rorat quam pluit): manare (stronger than stillare; with anything, aliqua re; e.g., sanguine or cruore; multo sudore): dripping wet, totus madidus: to become dripping wet, madefieri (e.g., pluvia, imbre); madidum reddi (aqua); . or permadescere (stronger term): to be, etc., madere, madidum, or madefactum esse (e.g., imbre): a dagger dripping with blood, stillans pugio (Cic.).