comprendis
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- L
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..." - M
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..." - G
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..."