contundet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contundo, contundere, contudi, contusus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
quell/crush/outdo/subdue utterly; bruise/beat; pound to pieces/powder/pulp;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...oraculo missa; omnem vim doloris tui divina eius contundet auctoritas. Hunc itaque tibi puta dicere: 'non te solum..."de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...excitandas vel persequendas feras: nec crebro illis minatur (contundet enim animos et, quicquid est indolis, comminuetur trepidatione degeneri..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...arcana movebo) bellum ingens geret Italia, populosque feroces contundet, moresque viris et moenia ponet, tertia dum Latio regnantem..."