comprendi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comprendo, comprendere, comprendi, comprensus:
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. 1stpres. pass. infin.
Examples
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...bonum nostrum, id est eadem sententia non isdem comprendi uerbis. Quemadmodum idem exercitus modo latius panditur modo..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...argumentis maior fides habenda"? Nam finitione quidem comprendi nihil non in universum certum erit. XI. Quidam putant etiam..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...latent fures, quos idem saepe reuertens, Hespere, mutato comprendis nomine Eous at lubet innuptis ficto te carpere questu..."
