adquirit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adquiro, adquirere, adquisivi, adquisitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
acquire besides/in addition, obtain, gain, win, get; add to stock; accrue;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Boreas agat; inde per arua Graiorum Macetumque nouas adquirite uires dum paci dat tempus hiemps.' sic fatur..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...appareat, comparanda cum pessimis est. 4. Auaritia adquirit et contrahit, quo aliquis melior utatur: ira inpendit, paucis gratuita..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...facie simplicis sumptique ex proximo sermonis fidem quoque adquirit, adeo ut, etiam si reliqua scripta atque elaborata sint..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...aliud velocius ullum: mobilitate viget virisque adquirit eundo, parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras ingrediturque solo..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...necem iustis ulciscitur armis. ante tamen bello vires adquirit amicas, quaque potens habitus volucri freta classe pererrat: hinc..."Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...recubas arbore, virga fuit: Nascitur exiguus, sed opes adquirit eundo, Quaque venit, multas accipit amnis aquas. Fac tibi..."Epistola ad Caesarem II
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...cives; movet composita, et res novas veteribus adquirit. Quare tollendus foenerator in posterum, uti suas quisque res curemus..."