adriperer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adripio, adripere, adripui, adreptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
take hold of; seize (hand/tooth/claw), snatch; arrest; assail; pick up, absorb;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...male gerentum. [bonis esse oportet dentibus lenam probam, adripere ut quisquis veniat blandeque adloqui, male corde consultare, bene..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...caelum tendere, miserari parvos liberos, rogitare omnia, pavere, <adripere omnia,> superbia atque deliciis omissis sibi patriaeque diffidere..."