carpens
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. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...utar, uerticosus, cometarum autem compositus et destinatum iter carpens. [8,3] Num quis nostrum crederet lunam aut quinque..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...frequens uerbere coercet. sequitur adsiduus comes, nunc aequa carpens spatia, nunc contra obuius oberrat, omni parte terrorem mouens..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...mihi, care parens, iterum fortasse rogabo!' illius umenti carpens pater oscula uultu: 'non equidem has umquam culparim, nata..."Liber III
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...natus quod rem feminarum tetigerit.Amplexus ille utrumque et carpens osculadulcemque in ambos caritatem partiens,"Cotidie" inquit "speculo..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...saepenumero homines decipi solere Quidam per agros deuium carpens iterAVE exaudiuit, et moratus paululum,adesse ut uidit nullum..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...iuvencos constituit frontique invergit vina sacerdos, et summas carpens media inter cornua saetas ignibus imponit sacris, libamina prima..."Ecloga II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...tibi candida Nais, pallentis violas et summa papavera carpens, narcissum et florem iungit bene olentis anethi; tum casia..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Caenis in ullos denupsit thalamos secretaque litora carpens aequorei vim passa dei est (ita fama ferebat), utque novae..."