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coerceo
coerceo
Latin
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Verb
coerceō (present infinitive coercēre, perfect active coercuī, supine coercitum); second conjugation
- I enclose on all sides, hold together; surround, encompass.
- I restrain, keep back, confine, shut up or in, hold in confinement, repress.
- (figuratively, of discourse) I keep within limits, control, limit.
- (figuratively, of a passion) I curb, restrain, tame, correct.
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- English: coerce
References
- coerceo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coerceo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coerceo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: sibi imperare or continere et coercere se ipsum
- to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
- to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates
- to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites disciplina coercere
- to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites coercere et in officio continere (B. C. 1. 67. 4)
- to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: sibi imperare or continere et coercere se ipsum