adpetentem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adpeto, adpetere, adpetivi, adpetitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seek/grasp after, desire; assail; strive eagerly/long for; approach, near;
acc. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →adpetens, adpetentis (gen.), adpetentior -or -us, adpetentissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
eager/greedy/having appetite for (w/GEN), desirous; avaricious/greedy/covetous;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...sine auaritia, honores sine ambitione, uoluptates sine luxuria adpetentem, diu tibi putabas illum sospitem posse contingere? Quicquid..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...vitae consequentis statum. eademque ratio fecit hominem hominum adpetentem cumque iis natura et sermone et usu congruentem..."
