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
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...lapsi descendimus in scapham, praecisoque vinculo reliqua Fortunae committimus? Nec ego in hoc periculum Eumolpon arcesso. Quid enim..."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..."