comprimat
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...lacerat diem? LIB. Edepol hominem infelicem, qui patronam comprimat. nam si quid sceleste fecit, lingua pro illo perierat..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...possunt? quid ex istis traham quod cupiditates meas comprimat? Vel hoc ipsum, quod omnia ista quae sensibus serviunt..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...alias interuallum ruinae suae diu seruet, alias cito comprimat; nunc amnes magnitudinis notae conuertat introrsum, nunc nouos exprimat..."