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
- L
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."