consuescunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consuesco, consuescere, consuevi, consuetus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
accustom oneself; become/be accustomed/used; inure, habituate; familiarize;; be intimate/have sexual intercourse with; form a habit; be in the habit of;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...meretrix, lectus inlex est, amatores aves; bene salutando consuescunt, compellando blanditer, osculando, oratione vinnula, venustula. si papillam pertractavit..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...loca sola petunt frustraque laborant? an tum bracchia consuescunt firmantque lacertos? in terraque patris cur telum perpetiuntur optundi..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...domita sunt, quae fortitudini apta erant audaciae temeritatique consuescunt. 3. Quid? non mitioribus animis uitia leniora coniuncta sunt..."