comprimantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comprimo, comprimere, compressi, compressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
press/squeeze together, fold, crush; hem/shut/keep/hold in; copulate (male);; suppress/control/stifle/frustrate/subdue/cow, put down; hold breath; silence;
pl. pres. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...aliis incidant et impellant ac repellantur implicenturque et comprimantur, ex quibus nascitur uentus, cum illa quae colluctabantur incubuere..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...aliena sollicitet, ne oculi ad intentationem subitam digitorum comprimantur: ista non potest ratio uincere, consuetudo fortasse et adsidua..."XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...respondere pro filio, qui dicit 'occidi'? et licet comprimantur exclamationes, ora claudantur, nihil negat, qui hoc fatetur. atquin..."