compressiones
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compressio, compressionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
squeezing, compression; sexual embrace, copulation; abridging, compression;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...nostri amores mores consuetudines, [iocus ludus sermo suavisaviatio] compressiones artae amantum corporum, teneris labellis molles morsiunculae, [nostrorum orgiorum..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...supervacuum: corrupta oratio in verbis maxime inpropriis, redundantibus, compressione obscura, compositione fracta, vocum similium aut ambiguarum puerili captatione..."