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
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...scis, sine alios discere. DIN. Discant, dum mihi commentari liceat, ni oblitus siem. AST. Quid erit interea magistrae..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...adgnoscit quas perdiderat filias. PROLOGVS Achillem Aristarchi mihi commentari lubet: inde mihi principium capiam, ex ea tragoedia. 'sileteque..."Praefatio
Aulus Gellius
"...foret. III. Facta igitur est in his quoque commentari is eadem rerum disparilitas, quae fuit in illis annotationibus..."Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...aliis, audiebat, neque percontari, si parum intellexerat, neque commentari, quae audierat, fas erat; sed non minus quisquam tacuit..."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..."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..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...LYDVS The nomenclators, as Aemilius says in his commentary on the Histories of Sallustius, are those who indicate..."