deservires
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deservio, deservire, deservivi, deservitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Taking Dative
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
serve; devote oneself to (interest/job); be subject to; be of service/use to;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inde contraria, novissime animum corpori addixit et illius deservire libidini iussit. Omnes istae artes quibus aut circitatur civitas..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...negotiis distineri ob hoc moleste fero, quod deservire studiis non potes. Si tamen alteram litem per iudicem alteram..."