compressius
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compressus, compressa -um, compressior -or -us, compressissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Bio/medical
constricted/narrow/pressed together; bound/tight (bowels), constipated, binding;
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →compresse, compressius, compressissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
briefly, succinctly, in a compressed manner; urgently, pressingly, insistently;; briefly, succinctly, in a compressed manner; urgently, pressingly;
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...pueri animum eius ad inquirendum everberat: quaerit igitur compressius violentiusque. Tum puer matre urgente lepidi atque festivi mendacii..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...esse dicebat, quod latius loquerentur rhetores, dialectici autem compressius. obsequar igitur voluntati tuae dicamque, si potero, rhetorice..."
