Commentor, commentâris, commentâtus sum, commentári, Frequentatiuum Comminiscor. Plaut.To muse or thinkeon: to make mention: to dispute, common, or reason of: to write commentaries or bookes of remembraunce: to deuise: to inuent or imagine a false tale. Commentari aliquem.Plaut.To counterfeite one. Commentari.Cic.To muse and thinke of.Futuras mecum commentabar miserias.Cic.I did cast in my minde miseries to come. Commentari, Dilputare.Cic.To dispute or talke of.Commentari & meditari de aliqua re.Cic.To talke and deuise of a thing.Plures dies in villa commentari.Cic.To talke of.Commentandi causa atque inter se colloquendi congregantur.Cic.To debate and talke of matters.Multos annos aliquid commentari.Cic.Inter se commentari qua ratione traducendum sit eis tempus.Cic.To debate and reason one with the other.Cum aliquo quotidie commentari.Cic. Commentatus est Mimos.Cic.He inuented.Agere causam, & cõmentari. Ci. Exislein ædes eo colore & ijs oculis, vt egisle causam, non commentatum putares. OrationÊ in aliquem commentari.Cic.To inuent or make. Quum commentareinur hæc. Plin. When we made and wrote this.Commentari aliquid de disciplina militari. Plin. To deuise and write, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
commento, āvi, 1, v. act., collat. form of 1. commentor, q. v. (cf. Prisc. p. 797 P.), to delineate, sketch; only trop.: ora, humorously, qs. to demonstrate on the face, for to cudgel or beat, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 30 dub. (Brix, commetavi; cf. 2. commeto).—Hence, b. commentātus, a, um, pass.: ut sua et commentata et scripta... meminisset, Cic. Brut. 88, 301 (just before: secum commentatus in act. signif.): oratio, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 1.