carpendas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →carpo, carpere, carpsi, carptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seize/pick/pluck/gather/browse/tear off; graze/crop; tease/pull out/card (wool);; separate/divide, tear down; carve; despoil/fleece; pursue/harry; consume/erode;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...digerenda sit, ne ipsa se inpediat. Nec passim carpenda sunt nec avide invadenda universa: per partes pervenietur..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...habenis, ipsa acie nondum falcis temptanda, sed uncis carpendae manibus frondes interque legendae. inde ubi iam ualidis amplexae..." - T
Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quod accidit, insecuturos ad extrema ab tergo carpenda hostis. breue certamen leuis armaturae maxime cum procursatoribus fuit; equites..."