contextae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contextus, contexta, contextum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
interwoven; closely joined; connected, coherent (literary composition);; continuous, uninterrupted, unbroken; covered with a network (of rivers);
dat. sg. (f.)gen. sg. (f.)nom. pl. (f.)voc. pl. (f.) - 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
dat. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...robora ceu fumum mittunt ignesque vaporem, et partim contexta magis condensaque, ut olim cum teretis ponunt tunicas aestate..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...lapis oppressus subitis e frugibus asperÆ nec, tam contextae cum sint, exire videntur incolumes posse et salvas exsolvere..."Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tempestas nulla concutiat, non perducent te apte verba contexta et oratio fluens leniter: eant ut volent, dum animo..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...enim excidunt sed fluunt; perpetua et inter se contexta sunt. Nec dubito quin multum conferant rudibus adhuc..."Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...XVIII. Ita nec liber est impetus nec cura contexta, et utrumque alteri obstat: illa enim quae scripta sunt..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...igitur ante omnia oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia, qualis in sermone et epistulis, nisi cum aliquid..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Phaethontis et aerea cupressu. haec circum sedes late contexta locavit, vestibulum ut molli velatum fronde vireret. post hunc..."Liber VI
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...instituta sacrificia. Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma..."
