conprensus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conprendo, conprendere, conprendi, conprensus:
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);
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...uariis artibus necessitates properantes elusit, in angusto uero conprensus aut distulit, id est timide negauit, aut promisit..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vestigia rostro, alter in ambiguo est, an sit conprensus, et ipsis morsibus eripitur tangentiaque ora relinquit: sic deus..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vestigia rostro, alter in ambiguo est, an sit conprensus, et ipsis morsibus eripitur tangentiaque ora relinquit: sic deus..."