confringite
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;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...curantur male; atque illud saepe fit: tempestas venit, confringit tegulas imbricesque: ibi dominus indiligens reddere alias nevolt; venit..."Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uoltu: testem hunc fortuna negauit:Pompeio laudante cadam. confringite tela 160pectoris inpulsu iugulisque retundite ferrum.iam longinqua petit puluis..."