conteriture
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;
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...inquit "humana prope uti ferrum est. Si exerceas, conteritur; si non exerceas, tamen robigo interficit. Item homines exercendo..."Ars Amatoria III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...omnia constant; Mille licet sumant, deperit inde nihil. Conteritur ferrum, silices tenuantur ab usu: Sufficit et damni pars..."