contractum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contractus, contracta, contractum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
close/narrow/restricted/pinched; short (time); abridged, terse; restrained;; violated; dishonored; touched carnally; stolen, purloined, taken by stealth;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →contraho, contrahere, contraxi, contractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
enter into/upon relationship/agreement/business/marriage/loan/battle, deal with;; bring/draw together/in, assemble, collect/gather; unite in friendship/alliance;; sadden/depress/diminish/contract/tighten; cause/provoke (disease/war); commit;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →contractus, contractus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shrinking/narrowing; undertaking; legal/commercial agreement/contract;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
- T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...componere leges, induperatores pugnare ac proelia obire, nautae contractum cum ventis degere bellum, nos agere hoc autem..." - T
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...creata. sic aequo geritur certamine principiorum ex infinito contractum tempore bellum. nunc hic nunc illic superant vitalia rerum..." - L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...Cuius non lacrimas illius hilaritas supprimat? Cuius non contractum sollicitudine animum illius argutiae soluant? Quem non in iocos..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...feruntur, at in isdem siccum et sollicitum et contractum dicendi propositum plerumque adfectatione ipsa severitatis invisum est, quando..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...levat: "dicam quae acta sint ante ipsum rei contractum, dicam quae in re ipsa, dicam quae postea..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...labella guttis abstersisti omnibus articulis, ne quicquam nostro contractum ex ore maneret, tamquam commictae spurca saliva lupae. praeterea..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...praetexta coeperat, Publicium et Minucium, quorum aes alienum contractum in popina nullum rei publicae motum adferre poterat; reliquit..." - A
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...omnimodo debere, alii contra, nisi id vitium morbo contractum esset. Eum vero, cui dens deesset, Servius redhiberi posse..."
