carperet
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;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...favit. olim etiam, ne prima genas lanugo nitentes, carperet et pulchrae fuscaret gratia formae, ipse deus patriae celsam..."- Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...alia et fortasse minora. Maenius absentem Novium cum carperet, 'heus tu' quidam ait 'ignoras te an ut ignotum..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...nisi uti equitatu agmen adversariorum male haberet et carperet. Pons enim ipsius magnum circuitum habebat, ut multo breviore..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...transitum clauderet, modo ab latere aut ab tergo carperet agmen, ludificatus hostem omnibus artibus belli fuerat..."