comparas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compasco, compascere, compavi, compastus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
pasture (cattle) on common land; feed up/together; use as cattle food; eat;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →comparo, comparare, comparavi, comparatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
prepare; provide; compose; collect, get together/hold of; raise (force); unite;; place together, match, couple, pair; set/pit against; treat as equal; compare;; set up/establish/institute; arrange, dispose, settle; buy, acquire, secure;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - —
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
Examples
- T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...MNES. Vt ad senem etiam alteram facias viam. compara, fabricare finge quod lubet, conglutina, ut senem hodie doctum..." - T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tuom dic esse vel vitellum, prehende auriculis, compara labella cum labellis. ARG. Ten osculetur, verbero? LEON. Quam vero..." - L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inquit 'calor continet. ' Primummultum interest inter ista quae comparas. Calor enim unus est, prodesse varium est. Deinde calor..." - L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...universum conplectere, deinde hoc quod aetatem vocamus humanam compara immenso: videbis quam exiguum sit quod optamus, quod extendimus..." - L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...scire quam nihil in illa mali sit, compara inter se pauperum et divitum vultus: saepius pauper et fidelius..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...spera et ad id te quod est iniquissimum compara. Illud autem ante omnia memento, demere rebus tumultum..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Aliquid cotidie adversus paupertatem, aliquid adversus mortem auxili compara, nec minus adversus ceteras pestes; et cum multa percurreris..." - M
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...exempla. miserum me, fili: nempe morbo peristi. compara terram mari, domum navi, lectulum carceri, libertatem servituti, desiderium oculorum..."
