decertes
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. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- M
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..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...inde opere reliquum diei de imperatore sumendo sententiis decertant, nulli ex praesentibus satis fidentes: quem autem ab Roma..."