desilio

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

dēsiliō iluī, ultus, īre

de + salio, to leap down, dismount : de navibus, Cs.: de raedā: ex equis, Cs.: ab equo, V.: curru ab alto, O.: biiugis, V.: altis turribus, H.: in medias undas, O.: ad pedes, to dismount , Cs.: desilite commilitones, jump overboard , Cs.: Desiluit, dismounted , O.—Poet.: unde loquaces Lymphae desiliunt, H.: aetheriā domo (of lightning), Pr.—Fig., to leap headlong, venture heedlessly : in artum, H.