conserver
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conservo, conservare, conservavi, conservatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep safe/intact, save (from danger); preserve, maintain; spare; keep/observe;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...Nunc igitur quoniam certissima corpora quaedam sunt, quae conservant naturam semper eandem, quorum abitu aut aditu mutatoque ordine..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...gratia: "si consul Antonius, Brutus hostis, si conservator rei publicae Brutus, hostis Antonius". LXXXVII. Olim plura de figuris..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...animo tuo cupisti, quod castum expeteres et integellum, conserves puerum mihi pudice, non dico a populo—nihil veremur..." - M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...Quare, patres conscripti, consulite vobis, prospicite patriae, conservate vos, coniuges, liberos fortunasque vestras, populi Romani nomen salutemque defendite..." - M
Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...reliquasque naturas nihil aliud agere, nisi ut id conservent, quod in quaque optimum sit? Quo modo autem optimum..."