debentia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →debeo, debere, debui, debitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
owe; be indebted/responsible for/obliged/bound/destined; ought, must, should;
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...rastra, quid usus aratri, nescia nec quicquam iunctis debentia bubus liquerat Euboicus tumidarum cultor aquarum, liquerat et Zanclen..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...fallor, ut iam nunc dicat iam nunc debentia dici, pleraque differat et praesens in tempus omittat, hoc amet..."