commissuras
Dictionary entries
- Entry →committo, committere, commisi, commissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bring together, unite/join, connect/attach; put together, construct; entrust;; engage (battle), set against; begin/start; bring about; commit; incur; forfeit;
acc. pl. fut. act. part. - Entry →commissura, commissurae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
joint, juncture, seam, gap; intersection, common point; boundary/dividing line;
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...flumina supra ferantur, assiduus umor commissuras lapidis extenuat et cotidie aliquid his ad quae religatus est aufert..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quam uides in lusoria pila: non multum illi commissurae et rimae [earum] nocent quo minus par sibi..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quercus excutitur et quaecumque in arduis arbor commissura astricta lapidum stetit. [27,6] Labant ac madent tecta..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...inter se non intermissa coniunctio. Unitas est sine commissura continuatio, et duorum inter se coniunctorum corporum tactus..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...possis, nisi cum primis extrema contuleris: nam commissura decipit, usque eo mira arte naturae; quod a simillimo coepit..."de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...uirium animalia humanae manus ictus inpellit; tenui ferro commissura ceruicis abrumpitur, et cum articulus ille qui caput collumque..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...consonantes quoque, earumque praecipue quae sunt asperiores, in commissura verborum rixantur, ut s ultima cum x proxima, quarum..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...inter se vincti atque ita cohaerentes ne commissura perluceat: corpus sit, non membra. XVII. Quod ita continget..."
