prensam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prendo, prendere, prendi, prensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
catch/capture; take hold of/possession of/in hand, arrest; occupy; seize/grasp;; catch up with; reach shore/harbor; understand, comprehend; get a grip on;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...mutarent liquidas orasse sorores, Panaque cum prensam sibi iam Syringa putaret, corpore pro nymphae calamos tenuisse palustres, dumque..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...mutarent liquidas orasse sorores, Panaque cum prensam sibi iam Syringa putaret, corpore pro nymphae calamos tenuisse palustres, dumque..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...latere diripuit elatumque deferebat in pectus, ni proximi prensam dextram vi attinuissent. extrema et conglobata inter se pars..."