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
- P
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..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...fallor, ut iam nunc dicat iam nunc debentia dici, pleraque differat et praesens in tempus omittat, hoc amet..."