comprenditur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...visu nec tactu nec ullo sensu comprenditur: cogitabile est. Quod generaliter est, tamquam homo generalis, sub oculos..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Poeante satum, quo flamma ministro subdita. dumque avidis comprenditur ignibus agger, congeriem silvae Nemeaeo vellere summam sternis..."