aluisset
Dictionary entries
- Entry →alo, alere, alui, alitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
feed, nourish, rear, nurse, suckle; cherish; support, maintain, develop;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...sine quo consecutus non essem. Nisi me nutrix aluisset infantem, nihil eorum, quae consilio ac manu gero, facere..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...coniuncta populo Romano civitas, quam ipse semper aluisset omnibusque rebus ornasset, ad vim atque arma descenderet, atque..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...populatione agrorum rapto in diem frumento aluisset militem, postquam saeptus vallo repente inops omnium rerum erat, ad conloquium..."