adpetitionem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adpetitio, adpetitionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
desire, appetite; action of trying to reach/grasp, stretching out for; grasping;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...sollicitat, adtrahit. (9) Quidam ita finierunt: 'bonumest quod adpetitionem sui mouet, uel quod impetum animi tendentis ad semouet..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quia cognitiones comprehensionesque rerum, e quibus efficiuntur artes, adpetitionem movent, cum divitiae non sint in bonis, nulla..."