conprehenderitis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conprehendo, conprehendere, conprehendi, conprehensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
catch/seize/grasp firmly; arrest; take hold/root/fire, ignite; conceive (baby);; embrace; include/cover/deal with (in speech/law); express (by term/symbol);
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...prope iam perditos; vix ipsos litterarum apices potui conprehendere; cum valebo ab oculis revise ad me et librum..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Dividi enim illam, non concidi, utile est; nam conprehendere quemadmodum maxima ita minima difficile est. Discribitur in tribus..."
