commentarier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →commentor, commentari, commentatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
think about; study beforehand, practice, prepare; discuss, argue over; imagine;
pres. infin. - Entry →commento, commentare, commentavi, commentatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
delineate, sketch; (humorously) demonstrate on face (cudgel/beat);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...scis, sine alios discere. DIN. Discant, dum mihi commentari liceat, ni oblitus siem. AST. Quid erit interea magistrae..." - T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...adgnoscit quas perdiderat filias. PROLOGVS Achillem Aristarchi mihi commentari lubet: inde mihi principium capiam, ex ea tragoedia. 'sileteque..." - A
Praefatio
Aulus Gellius
"...foret. III. Facta igitur est in his quoque commentari is eadem rerum disparilitas, quae fuit in illis annotationibus..." - A
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...aliis, audiebat, neque percontari, si parum intellexerat, neque commentari, quae audierat, fas erat; sed non minus quisquam tacuit..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quod Graeci frequentissime faciunt, crebro digitorum labrorumque motu commentari, clare exscreare, pedem alterum longe proferre, partem togae sinistra..." - M
Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...volunt animadvertuntque ea, quae domi fiunt, curiosius incipiuntque commentari aliquid et discere et eorum, quos vident, volunt..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...LYDVS The nomenclators, as Aemilius says in his commentary on the Histories of Sallustius, are those who indicate..."