adoptantis
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;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- P
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..." - G
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..."