creabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →creo, creare, creavi, creatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
create/bring into being/make; procreate; beget/sire; give birth to;; produce/bear fruit; bring about; cause to grow; elect, appoint, invest;; institute; conjure up; (PASS) be born/spring from; be home/native of;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- C
Hannibal
Cornelius Nepos
"...Romae consules, sic Carthagine quotannis annui bini reges creabantur. In eo magistratu pari diligentia se Hannibal praebuit..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...interregno orta contentio est, quod duo patricii consules creabantur, intercedentibusque tribunis interrex Fabius aiebat in duodecim tabulis legem..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...exspirante iam libertate per vim ac tumultum creabantur, sed quibus sepositis et absentibus, in rura sua consulatus ferebantur..."