comprehendunt
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);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...Academici quidem ipsum illud nihil posse comprehendi quasi comprehendunt et nihil posse decerni quasi decernunt, Pyrrhonii..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...plerumque declinant in peius et proxima virtutibus vitia comprehendunt fiuntque pro grandibus tumidi, pressis exiles, fortibus temerarii, laetis..."Liber V
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...ferro aut fame intereant." Consurgitur ex consilio; comprehendunt utrumque et orant, ne sua dissensione et pertinacia..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...circa erant excepissent, illos fugientes lictores comprehendunt. Clamor inde concursusque populi, mirantium quid rei esset. Tanaquil inter tumultum..."