celerem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →celero, celerare, celeravi, celeratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
quicken/accelerate; make haste, act quickly/be quick; hasten, hurry, do quickly;
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →Celer, Celeris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
knights (pl.) (old name/precursor of equestrian order); Roman kings' bodyguard;
acc. sg. - Entry →celer, celeris -e, celerior -or -us, celerrimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
swift, quick, agile, rapid, speedy, fast; rash, hasty, hurried; lively; early;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...exitium, pertinaciam]. date, di, quaeso conveniundi mi eius celerem copiam. CHAR. Apparatus sum ut videtis: abicio superbiam; egomet..."Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...fraudaverim.' PIST. Mane dum scribit. CHRYS. Celerem oportet esse amatoris manum. P. Atque ~ idem hercle em perdundum magis..."Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...iecit super arma cateruas,quam per summa rapit celerem uenabula pardum.tunc densos inter cuneos conpressus et omniuallatus bello..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Celeri nostros legis, Aucte, libellos, si tamen et Celerem quod legis, Aucte, iuuat. Ille meas gentes et Celtas..."Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...opposita impedi. Antigone Perge, o parens, et concita celerem gradum; Compesce tela, fratribus ferrum excute. Nudum inter enses..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ordinem. Nvn. Vt profugus urbem liquit infesto gradu celerem citatis passibus cursum explicans, celso sonipedes ocius subigit iugo..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...orbes nec sit terris ultima Thule. Nutrix Alumna, celerem quo rapis tectis pedem? resiste et iras comprime..."Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...concessero. IV.iii STASIMVS Stasime, fac te propere celerem, recipe te ad dominum domum, ne subito metus exoriatur scapulis..."
