certationes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →certatio, certationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
striving; contest; struggling for superiority/mastery; (fight/sports/legal);
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...senatus decresset, confestim Caruilii tribuni plebis omissa multae certatione rei capitalis diem Postumio dixerunt ac ni uades daret..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...impetu ad consultandum avocabantur, eo plus abhorrebant a certatione animi, adeo ut Quinctio gratias agerent quod eius opera..."
