carpsi
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...duabus proximis noctibus cursim transeo; atque in legendo carpsi exinde quaedam et notavi mirabilia et scriptoribus fere nostris..."Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Bassa, solet. Basia dum nolo nisi quae luctantia carpsi, et placet ira mihi plus tua quam facies..."Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tenuis gemma latere rosas. Insilui mersusque uadis luctantia carpsi basia: perspicuae plus uetuistis aquae. Dum tu lenta nimis..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...placaui, et artus, corpora exanima amputans, in parua carpsi frusta et haec feruentibus demersi aenis; illa lentis ignibus..."
Liber Undecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...nurus matresque Pelasgae longaeuique patres, quorum tot gaudia carpsi orbauique domos: fratri concurro, quid ultra est? spectent..."