adoptanti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adopto, adoptare, adoptavi, adoptatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
adopt, select, secure, pick out; wish/name for oneself; adopt legally;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.dat. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...habebatur: ea pars morum eius quo suspectior sollicitis adoptanti placebat. Igitur Galba, adprehensa Pisonis manu, in hunc modum..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...onerosum succedere bono principi, et afferebas excusationem adoptanti. An prona parvaque sunt ad aemulandum, quod nemo incolumitatem turpitudine..."