constricti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →constringo, constringere, constrinxi, constrictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bind fast/tight, tie up/together; confine, restrain; hinder, inhibit, control;; compress/squeeze; make smaller/lessen/contract; hold together; congeal/freeze;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →constrictus, constricta -um, constrictior -or -us, constrictissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
small/limited in size; marked by contraction/tightening; compressed/contracted;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.)
Examples
- T
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...coquinatum te ire quoquam postulas, quin ibi constrictis ungulis cenam coquas? nunc adeo tu, qui meus..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...manibus inter se usque ad articulorum strepitum constrictis: "Quaenam est, inquit, haec audacia, aut ubi fabulas etiam antecessura..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ipsos, qui velut sacramento rogati vel etiam superstitione constricti nefas ducunt a suscepta semel persuasione discedere: oratori vero..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...vindicem, tum Quinctius consules immerito increpari ait, qui constricti legibus de provocatione ad dissolvendum imperium latis, nequaquam tantum..."