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
- C
Pelopidas
Cornelius Nepos
"...consuesset, a tyranno Alexandro Pheraeo simul cum Ismenia comprehensus in vincla coniectus est. Hunc Epaminondas recuperavit, bello persequens..." - L
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..."