adservaris
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adservo, adservare, adservavi, adservatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep, guard, preserve; watch, observe; keep in custody; save life of, rescue;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 2ndsg. perf. act. subj. 2nd - Entry →adservo, adservare, adservavi, adservatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep, guard, preserve; watch, observe; keep in custody; save life of, rescue;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 2nd - —
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
Examples
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...oppido esse invitam atque adservari, verum aliquo pacto verba me his daturam esse et venturam. SY. perii hercle..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...venerant, collaudat atque in oppidum dimittit, portas murosque adservari iubet. Ipse eis operibus, quae facere instituerat, milites disponit..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...valido imposito ad triumphum accersit: Vitruvium in carcere adservari iussit quoad consul redisset, tum verberatum necari: aedes eius..."
