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
- L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."