congestu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →congero, congerere, congessi, congestus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
collect, bring/get together, amass; heap/pile up/on; build, construct; compile;; consign (to one's stomach); assemble/crowd together; give repeatedly, shower;
abl. sg. - Entry →congestus, congestus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
action of bringing together/assembling/heaping; heap/pile/mass; big collection;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tellure uiros. uix tollere miles membra ualet multo congestu pulueris haerens. alligat et stantis adfusae magnus harenae agger..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...uenerunt, multoque concitatior est auaritia in magnarum opum congestu conlocata, ut flammae infinito acrior..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...curia serio ludunt, illi in litoribus harenae congestu simulacra domuum excitant, hi ut magnum aliquid agentes in lapidibus..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...arbitros reformidet, extemporalis actio auditorum frequentia, ut miles congestu signorum, excitatur. XVII. Namque et difficiliorem cogitationem exprimit..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...aquarum regio est, castella fontibus imposita; quosdam rivos congestu harenae abdidit. Ea dum a Corbulone tuendae Syriae parantur..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...dehonestamentis mire gaudebat. nec coloniae modo aut municipia congestu copiarum, sed ipsi cultores arvaque maturis iam frugibus..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...pulcherrimam hanc urbem domibus et tectis et congestu lapidum stare creditis? muta ista et inanima intercidere ac reparari..."