committimus
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
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Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...alienique sanguinis mouemus manum et nauigia deducimus, salutem committimus fluctibus, secundos optamus uentos, quorum felicitas est ad bella..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...lapsi descendimus in scapham, praecisoque vinculo reliqua Fortunae committimus? Nec ego in hoc periculum Eumolpon arcesso. Quid enim..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quis infirmiorem esse dicet. duo inter se comparativa committimus: "si te, Catilina, comprehendi, si interfici iussero, credo erit..."