carpsit
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. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...coacta 395inuitus questusque Numam iussisse senator.non aetas haec carpsit edax monimentaque rerumputria destituit: crimen ciuile uidemustot uacuas urbes..."Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...floret cana racemis, gramina quod redolent, quae modo carpsit ouis; quod myrtus, quod messor Arabs, quod sucina trita..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Prima uis tardas tetigit bidentes: laniger pingues male carpsit herbas; colla tacturus steterat sacerdos: dum manus certum parat..."Domitianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...defunctumque nullo praeterquam consecrationis honore dignatus, saepe etiam carpsit obliquis orationibus et edictis. III. Inter initia principatus cotidie..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...fugit complexa toros crinemque genasque aegra per antiqui carpsit vestigia somni atque haec impresso gemuit miseranda cubili..."Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...longa aegra siti, quos ore lacus, quae pabula carpsit, verbere candentes quotiens exhorruit armos! quin et ab excelso..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...doctus in arvis aut Amphrysiaco pastor de gramine carpsit.' Dixerat. inveniunt positos iam segniter artus pugnantemque animam; ritu..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...fructus, quos ipsa uolentia rura sponte tulere sua, carpsit, nec ferrea iura insanumque forum aut populi tabularia uidit..."