contorto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contortus, contorta, contortum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
involved, intricate, obscure (discourse); tangled/complicated;; brandished/hurled; vehement, energetic, strong, full of motion;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →contorqueo, contorquere, contorsi, contortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stir up/agitate, make rough (sea); utter with vigor; turn about/sway (emotions);; twist, make twisted/crooked; twirl/whirl, rotate/move in arc; brandish; fling;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Aeoliam rabiem totis exercet harenis, et non imbriferam contorto puluere nubem in flexum uiolentus agit: pars plurima terrae..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...summos repleta foros descendit in undas 630uicinum inuoluens contorto uertice pontum.aequora discedunt mersa diducta carinainque locum puppis cecidit..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...stringatur ensis, merita supplicia exigat. en impudicum crine contorto caput laeua reflexi: iustior numquam focis datus tuis..."APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...pensa. Sponte sua festinat opus nulloque labore mollia contorto descendunt stamina fuso. Vincunt Tithoni, vincunt et Nestoris annos..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...fremere intus et aequora venti poscere. tum validam contorto turbine portam impulit Hippotades, fundunt se carcere laeti Thraces..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ereptus erat: non ocior illo hasta nec excussae contorto verbere glandes nec Gortyniaco calamus levis exit ab arcu..."