consternatus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consternatus, consternata, consternatum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
dismayed, confused, confounded, in consternation;
nom. sg. (m.) - Entry →consterno, consternare, consternavi, consternatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
confound/shock/confuse/perplex/dismay; terrify/alarm/frighten, drive frantic;; overcome; stretch/lay out upon the ground; excite to sedition/revolt/mutiny;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...repente lacunaria sonare coeperunt totumque triclinium intremuit. Consternatus ego exsurrexi, et timui ne per tectum petauristarius aliquis descenderet..."Galba
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Accessit ad tanta discrimina mors Vindicis, qua maxime consternatus destitutoque similis non multo afuit quin vitae renuntiaret..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...coniunxque et liberi adsunt." Coriolanus prope ut amens consternatus ab sede sua cum ferret matri obviae complexum, mulier..."