despondebit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despondeo, despondere, despepondi, desponsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
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- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
betroth, promise (woman) in marriage; pledge, promise; despair/yield/give up;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mihi nuptura est? TRACH. Suspicor. PLES. Censen hodie despondebit eam mihi, quaeso? TRACH. Censeo. PLES. Quid? patri etiam..." - T
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...nisi tu illi fers suppetias, iam illa animum despondebit. age, mi Achilles, fiat quod te oro, serva illam..."
