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..."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..."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..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...transitum clauderet, modo ab latere aut ab tergo carperet agmen, ludificatus hostem omnibus artibus belli fuerat..."