desponderit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despondeo, despondere, despondi, desponsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
betroth, promise (woman) in marriage; pledge, promise; despair/yield/give up;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 3rdsg. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...istuc. AD. Enicas me. * * * 1267a prius quam tibi desponderit. AGOR. Mitto. AD. Sperate, salve. HAN. Condamus alter alterum..."Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...paruo scelus hoc uenisse putabunt.cum sibi Tarpeias uictor desponderit arces,cum spe Romanae promiserit omnia praedae,decipitur quod..."
