adoptaris
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;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 2ndsg. perf. act. subj. 2nd - 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;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 2nd - —
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
Examples
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...commissum alienae dicioni subiciant. Libertinos vero ab ingenuis adoptari quidem iure posse Masurius Sabinus scripsit. Sed id neque..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...vitantur. apud frequentem militum contionem imperatoria brevitate adoptari a se Pisonem exemplo divi Augusti et more militari..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...principem, qui cogi non posset. Olim tu quidem adoptari merebare; sed nescissemus, quantum tibi deberet imperium, si ante..."