constrictis
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;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. 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;
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all)
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...coquinatum te ire quoquam postulas, quin ibi constrictis ungulis cenam coquas? nunc adeo tu, qui meus..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...manibus inter se usque ad articulorum strepitum constrictis: "Quaenam est, inquit, haec audacia, aut ubi fabulas etiam antecessura..."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..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...vindicem, tum Quinctius consules immerito increpari ait, qui constricti legibus de provocatione ad dissolvendum imperium latis, nequaquam tantum..."