confossum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confossus, confossa -um, confossior -or -us, confossissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Early
punctured, pierced; pierced through; full of holes;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →confodio, confodere, confodi, confossus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stab/run through, wound fatally; pierce, harm; dig up/turn over (land); trench;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...salute domini sui sine respectu sui dimicantem et confossum uolneribus reliquias tamen sanguinis ab ipsis uitalibus fundentem..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...ingredientem curiam repente hostem publicum appellantes invaderent, graphisque confossum lacerandum ceteris traderent; nec ante satiatus est quam membra..."Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...erat. Quid? non Haemonius, quem cuspide perculit, heros confossum medica postmodo iuvit ope? venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Vitellium et preces parantem pervicere ut absisteret: tum confossum laceratumque et absciso capite truncum corpus Sabini in Gemonias..."
