confringerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confringo, confringere, confregi, confractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
break up/down/in pieces/in two; shatter/destroy/crush/ruin/wreck; subvert/undo;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...armisdedignatur iter: latis exire ruinisquaerit, et inpulso turres confringere uallo,perque omnis gladios et qua uia caede paranda..." - M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...vestram equitumque Romanorum et tantam conspirationem bonorum omnium confringere et labefactare possit. [23] Quae cum ita sint..."