contexit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contego, contegere, contexi, contectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cover up, conceal, hide; protect; clothe; roof over; bury/entomb; strew thickly;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd - Entry →contexo, contexere, contexui, contextus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
weave/entwine/braid/twist together; compose/connect/link/combine; make/join/form
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam verborum ordinem praestat, nec ea pauca contexit sed durat prope in infinitum, et in longissimis actionibus prius..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ipsa disponit, sed verba etiam copulat, totamque ita contexit orationem ut ei nihil praeter manum desit: nam memoriae..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...notis est derisui.Venari asello comite cum vellet leo,contexit illum frutice et admonuit simulut insueta voce terreret feras..." - P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...deam demittat ad imos?' tantum effata caput glauco contexit amictu multa gemens et se fluvio dea condidit alto..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. nulla domus tales umquam contexit amores, nullus amor tali coniunxit foedere amantes, qualis adest..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...confisus scaphas navium magnarum circiter LX cratibus pluteisque contexit eoque milites delectos imposuit atque eas in litore pluribus..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...prioribus servis humili sepultura in privatis eius hortis contexit. caput per lixas calonesque suffixum laceratumque ante Patrobii tumulum..."