demeto

1.

dē-mĕto, messŭi, messum, 3, v. a., to mow, reap, cut off, gather, crop, harvest (class.). Usually of fruits:

tempora demetendis fructibus et percipiendis accommodata,

Cic. de Sen. 19, 70; cf. id. N. D. 2, 62 fin.: hordeum, Cass. Hem. ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.: demesso frumento, * Caes. B. G. 4, 32, 4; so,

frumentum,

Liv. 34, 26:

segetes,

Tac. A. 14, 24; cf.:

Galli armati alienos agros demetunt,

Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15:

demessa est terra,

Vulg. Apoc. 14. 16.—Less freq. ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose) of other objects:

pollice florem,

to pluck off, Verg. A. 11, 68:

favos,

i. e. to cut out, take out, Col. 9, 15, 12:

testes caudamque adultero (ferrum),

Hor. S. 1, 2, 46; cf.:

huic ense caput,

to behead, Ov. M. 5, 104; and absol.:

acies ferro demetit,

Sil. 16, 102.

2.

dē-mēto, āre, v. dimeto.