stoop

stoop
v. trans.
Bow, bend: P. and V. κλί̄νειν.
V. intrans. Ar. and P. κύπτειν, ἐγκύπτειν, ἐπῐκύπτειν (Xen.).
Stoop down: Ar. and P. ἐγκύπτειν, ἐπῐκύπτειν.
As he stooped down: V. τοῦ δὲ νεύοντος κάτω (Eur. El. 839).
Stoop, forward: P. προνεύειν, Ar. προκύπτειν.
Stoop over: Ar. and P. προσκύπτειν.
Stoop to, condescend to: P. συγκαθιέναι (dat. or absol.).
With infin. P. and V. ἀξιοῦν, δῐκαιοῦν, V. τολμᾶν, Ar. and V. τλῆναι (2nd aor. of τλᾶν) .

STOOP

v. PROP. se demittere: caput demittere (Cic.): caput inclinare (Prisc.): se flectere (Caes.): flecti incurvescere (Cic.).

Figuratively To condescend Vid.

stoop (v.):

I. Lit.: to bend the body downwards:

1. expr. by dēmitto, submitto, 3: to s. in order to go under an archway, caput ad fornicem demittere, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 267: they entered the doorway s.ing, submisso intraverunt vertice [or, in prose, capite] postes, Ov. M. 8, 638.

2. by inclīno, 1: s.ing downwards he wrote upon the ground, inclinans se deorsum scribebat in terram, Vulg. Joh. viii. 6 (inclinare caput or corpus, is simply to incline the head or person, in whatever direction): v. TO BEND, INCLINE, BOW.

II. Fig.: to condescend: descendo, me submitto: v. TO CONDESCEND. Expr. not to be willing to s. to anything, by indignari: we must not be unwilling to s. to learn ..., non indignandum est discere, Quint. 1, 11, 17.

stoop (subs.): Phr.: to have a s. about the shoulders, *corpore circa humeros curvato esse.