comprehensus
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);
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Pelopidas
Cornelius Nepos
"...consuesset, a tyranno Alexandro Pheraeo simul cum Ismenia comprehensus in vincla coniectus est. Hunc Epaminondas recuperavit, bello persequens..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...Notus est ille tyrannicida qui, inperfecto opere comprehensus et ab Hippia tortus ut conscios indicaret, circumstantes amicos tyranni..."