contrahendas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contraho, contrahere, contraxi, contractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
enter into/upon relationship/agreement/business/marriage/loan/battle, deal with;; bring/draw together/in, assemble, collect/gather; unite in friendship/alliance;; sadden/depress/diminish/contract/tighten; cause/provoke (disease/war); commit;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...militarem ac rusticum deceat, sitque nonnumquam summittenda et contrahenda oratio, ne iudex eam vel intellegere vel capere..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...castris educit; nec fuit spatium tali tempore ad contrahenda castra, quod res posita in celeritate videbatur; Gaium Fabium..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...posuit, quia uado superari amnis non poterat et contrahendae naues erant ad exercitum traiciendum. Transgressi Maeandrum ad Hieran..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...auxilia accerserent, et quocumque alio poterat, ad copias contrahendas, in unum iam consilium, ut acie dimicaret, intentus misit..." - T
Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...acie decernendum uideret et undique ad se contrahendas uires, maxime de Achaiae urbibus, regionis ab se diuersae..." - T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...suae tenuerant simul perlicit donis ad naves undique contrahendas fabricandasque; simul et ipsi traici exercitum levarique quam primum..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...media. eoque tempore interiecto altius effossi specus, et contrahendae rursum multitudini gladiatorum spectaculum editur, inditis pontibus pedestrem..."