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
- L
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..." - M
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..."
