Latin search results for: contere

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. make weary
  2. spend, exhaust, waste (time), use up
  3. wear out/down
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. bruise, crumble
  2. grind, crush, pound to pieces
  3. rub/wipe away/out/off, expunge
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 2nd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. fill with terror
  2. frighten thoroughly
  3. suppress/intimidate by terrorizing
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: William Whitaker’s personal guess
#4

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. pierce/bore through
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)