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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."