conterit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contero, conterere, contrivi, contritus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grind, crush, pound to pieces; bruise, crumble; rub/wipe away/out/off, expunge;; spend, exhaust, waste (time), use up; wear out/down; make weary;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...haec regna relinquit permutatque domos et flammea conterit; inde auolat et spreti repetit uestigia lecti. ornatas paulo ante..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...decumae numerantem frigora brumae conterit una tribus, Gargiliane, foris. Ah miser et demens! Viginti litigat annis quisquam..."Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ratione uir es? Prima salutantes atque altera conterit hora, exercet raucos tertia causidicos, in quintam uarios extendit Roma..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...incremento cogitat, oblitus est usus. Rationes accipit, forum conterit, kalendarium versat: fit ex domino procurator. Vale. XV. SENECA..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conterit, suos tibi contribuit; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...venerisque offensa repulsa, protinus horrendis infamia pabula sucis conterit et tritis Hecateia carmina miscet caerulaque induitur velamina perque..."