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
- L
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..." - P
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..."