comprehendit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comprehendo, comprehendere, comprehendi, comprehensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
catch/seize/grasp firmly; arrest; take hold/root/fire, ignite; conceive (baby);; embrace; include/cover/deal with (in speech/law); express (by term/symbol);
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rdsg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...posse, si nihil obviam est— dicant: coqui abstulerunt, comprehendite, vincite, verberate, in puteum condite. horum tibi istic nihil..."Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...scite factis versibus cenarum ciborum exquisitas delicias comprehendit. Nam pleraque id genus, quae helluones isti terra et mari..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...tunc illa uis uenti circumeuntis quicquid intra se comprehendit cursu suo accendit et leuat in altum..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...habrotono miscet, perfusisque inguinibus meis, viridis urticae fascem comprehendit, omniaque infra umbilicum coepit lenta manu caedere. <. . .> Aniculae quamvis..."Pliny
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...quae unquam cum Germanis gesta sunt, XX voluminibus comprehendit, itemque "Naturalis Historiae" XXXVII libros absolvit. Periit clade Campaniae..."Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...duabus legione urbana est missus. alios <uagos ~comprehendit, alios> iam congregatos pugnando uicit: ex his multi occisi, multi..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quis exire aut emitti posset, praesidium Punicum comprehendit, senatum Campanum ire in castra ad imperatores Romanos iussit..."