adtendere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adtendo, adtendere, adtendi, adtentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn/stretch towards; apply; attend/pay (close) attention to, listen carefully;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndpl. perf. act. ind. 3rdsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- L
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...facilitatem,temeritas fortitudinem. (9) Haec nos similitudo coegit adtendere et distinguerespecie quidem uicina, re autem plurimum inter..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...paulatim deinde hoc, quod stupemus, animus ausus diligenter adtendere in arcana naturae sacrum misit ingenium, et ex adsiduis..."
