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
- T
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..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...dicuntur illud a Iove afferre. Ideo autem pungunt, quia ubicunque dulce est, ibi et acidum invenies." Iam etiam..." - M
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..."