pungunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pungo, pungere, pepugi, punctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
prick, puncture; sting (insect); jab/poke; mark with points/pricks; vex/trouble;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...tractant umida linguai circum sudantia templa; at contra pungunt sensum lacerantque coorta, quanto quaeque magis sunt asperitate repleta..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...dicuntur illud a Iove afferre. Ideo autem pungunt, quia ubicunque dulce est, ibi et acidum invenies." Iam etiam..."Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...volunt esse, ut beatum per se efficere possit. Pungunt quasi aculeis interrogatiunculis angustis, quibus etiam qui assentiuntur nihil..."