consternere
Dictionary entries
- 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;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd - Entry →consterno, consternere, constravi, constratus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strew/cover/spread (rugs); cover/lay/pave/line; bring down, lay low; calm (sea);
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nervis succisa videres concidere atque gravi terram consternere casu. si quos ante domi domitos satis esse putabant, effervescere..." - P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Laurentes viderunt, Aeole, campi oppetere et late terram consternere tergo. occidis, Argivae quem non potuere phalanges sternere..."
