certamini
Dictionary entries
- Entry →certo, certare, certavi, certatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
vie (with), contest, contend/struggle (at law/politics), dispute; fight, strive;
pl. pres. pass. imp. 2ndpl. pres. pass. ind. 2nd - Entry →certor, certari, certatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
compete (in a contest), contend/struggle (at law/politics), strive;
pl. pres. imp. 2ndpl. pres. ind. 2nd - Entry →certamen, certaminis:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
contest, competition; battle, combat, struggle; rivalry; (matter in) dispute;
dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...feriunt, sed cum occasio. 3. Pyrrhum, maximum praeceptorem certaminis gymnici, solitum aiunt iis quos exercebat praecipere ne irascerentur..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...deficere nolite: uincetis optantes. Nec desunt tam pulchro certamini duces, qui ad similia uos cohortentur ac per uestigia..." - L
de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quibusque confligere et exigere ab iis per quos certamini praeparantur ut totis contra ipsos uiribus utantur; caedi..." - L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...secunda poscunt, aduersa exigunt] cape hoc decorum ludicri certaminis, insigne frontis; laeua uictricem tenens frondem uirenti protegat ramo..." - G
Domitianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...psilocitharistae; in stadio vero cursu etiam virgines. Certamini praesedit crepidatus purpureaque amictus toga Graecanica capite gestans coronam auream..." - G
Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...propter eadem haec, tum peculiari merito, quod praesidens certamini Neroneo cupientem inter citharoedos contendere nec quamvis flagitantibus cunctis..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...promovisset essetque victus, dum rus tendit repetito totius certaminis ordine, quo dato errasset recordatus, rediit ad eum quocum..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nequaquam concita bello, nonne vides aliquam longi certaminis ollis posse dari finem, vel cum sol et vapor omnis..."
