competitor
Dictionary entries
- Entry →competo, competere, competivi, competitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
meet; happen at same time, coincide; agree; be candidate/face (death) together;; be sound/capable/applicable/relevant/sufficient/adequate/competent/admissible;
sg. fut. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. imp. 3rd - Entry →competitor, competitoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rival, competitor; other candidate for office; rival claimant (to throne);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...esse, quod emere uelit, empturum sese negare propter competitores emptionis.' XIII 'Intra Kalendas' cum dicitur, quid significet, utrum..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...possimus. Primum nihil idem concupiscamus: rixa est inter competitores. Deinde nihil habeamus quod cum magno emolumento insidiantis eripi..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...nisi pontificem non reversurum. Atque ita potentissimos duos competitores multumque et aetate et dignitate antecedentes superavit, ut plura..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tyrannum, qui sub pacto abolitionis dominationem deposuerat, agit competitor: "mihi in te dicere non licet..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam reis dare laudatores licet, et editi in competitores, in L. Pisonem, in Clodium et curionem libri vituperationem..."In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...proximis comitiis consularibus me consulem in campo et competitores tuos interficere voluisti, compressi conatus tuos nefarios amicorum praesidio..."Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uenit, quia P. Claudius frater eius consulatum petebat. competitores habebat patricios L. Aemilium Q. Fabium Ser. Sulpicium Galbam..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quod taciti indignarentur nobiles homines, id aeque nouus competitor intestabili periurio incesseret. Centum milium multa irrogata erat..."
