comprimendas
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;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...fieri, comprimere dentes videor posse aliquo modo. sed comprimenda est mihi vox atque oratio: erus eccum recipit..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Claudium, relictum a collegis ad tribunicias seditiones comprimendas, virum imbutum iam ab iuventa certaminibus plebeiis, quem auctorem aliquot..."