contrahitur
Dictionary entries
- 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;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...contemnere viris. praeterea cui non animus formidine divum contrahitur, cui non correpunt membra pavore, fulminis horribili cum plaga..." - L
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...modo dilatat se usque ad inuidiam, modo subsiditet contrahitur infra humilitatem uere iacentium, nunc pecuniam spargit,nunc rapit..." - L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...aliquid enim a nobis natura exigit, plus vanitate contrahitur. Numquam autem ego a te, ne ex toto maereas..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...tranquilla conlocatus, omnia infra se premens quibus ira contrahitur, modestus et uenerabilis est et dispositus; quorum nihil inuenies..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...elatus; adeo autem ad offensiones rerum hominumque non contrahitur ut ipsa illi iniuria usui sit, per quam experimentum..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oculos formant aliquatenus et fronti imperant: his contrahitur attollitur remittitur, ut una res in ea plus valeat, sanguis..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...corpore saetae, cornua decrescunt, fit luminis artior orbis, contrahitur rictus, redeunt umerique manusque, ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur..." - P
Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...inque brevem formam, ne sit vis magna nocendi, contrahitur, parvaque minor mensura lacerta est. mirantem flentemque et tangere..."