decerter
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decerto, decertare, decertavi, decertatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fight (issue out/to the finish); contend/dispute/argue; struggle/compete over;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...ignorare nomina, quibusque rebus cum is aequalibus decertant, si vicerunt, efferunt se laetitia, victi debilitantur animosque demittunt. quorum..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...inde opere reliquum diei de imperatore sumendo sententiis decertant, nulli ex praesentibus satis fidentes: quem autem ab Roma..."