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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
