complere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compleo, complere, complevi, completus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fill (up/in); be big enough to fill; occupy space, crowd; furnish/supply/man;; finish, complete, perfect; make pregnant; fulfill, make up, complete, satisfy;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...suum late dispandat hiatum idque suis confusa velit complere ruinis. proinde licet quamvis caelum terramque reantur incorrupta fore..."Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...solidum; nisi contra corpora certa essent quae loca complerent quae cumque tenerent omne quod est spatium, vacuum constaret..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...possunt tangere.urnis scelestae Danaides portant aquas,pertusa nec complere possunt dolia;immo luxuriae quicquid dederis perfluet.Nouem porrectus Tityos..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...denas Italo texamus robore navis; seu pluris complere valent, iacet omnis ad undam materies: ipsi numerumque modumque carinis..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Ergo aderat promissa dies et tempora Parcae debita complerant, cum Turni iniuria Matrem admonuit ratibus sacris depellere taedas..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...famaque finitimos et clari nomen Acestae excierat; laeto complerant litora coetu visuri Aeneadas, pars et certare parati. munera..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...adesse choris erat utilis atque nondum spissa nimis complere sedilia flatu, quo sane populus numerabilis, utpote paruos..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...venerunt, clamore sublato arma capere, portas claudere, murum complere coeperunt. Centuriones in oppido, cum ex significatione Gallorum novi..."