congestus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →congestus, congesta, congestum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
brought together; pressed/crowded together; thick;; piled up, crowded together;
nom. sg. (m.) - 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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - 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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...regione diei. est quoque uti possit magnus congestus harenae fluctibus adversis oppilare ostia contra, cum mare permotum ventis..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...exitu prohibitus resistit et quacumque mox potuit ui congestus erumpit. Euthymenes Massiliensis testimonium dicit: "Nauigaui, inquit, Atlanticum mare..." - L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...disponendi libelli; tantus rerum ex orbe toto coeuntium congestus, ut possit per ordinem suum principis maximi animo subici..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Tonantis: nunc Thessalicam Pelion Ossam premet et Pindo congestus Athos nemus aetheriis inseret astris; uincet scopulos inde Typhoeus..."
