conteriti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contereo, conterere, conterui, conteritus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Whitaker
- Age:
- Later
frighten thoroughly; fill with terror; suppress/intimidate by terrorizing;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...virginalis, liberos parentibus sublectos habebis atque indigno quaestu conteres? nam huic alterae quae patria sit profecto nescio, nisi..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...unus ab illis numeretur annus, omnis annos suos conterent. Quosdam antequam in summum ambitionis eniterentur, inter prima luctantis..."