desponderitis
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;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...oppugnanda Capua duces atque exercitus Romanos; ne desponderent animos; tolerando paucos dies totam soluturos obsidionem. inde naues..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quisquam exsistit aut futurus videtur. Nec ipsi solum desponderant animos, sed contemni coepti erant a finitimis populis, imperiumque..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...ingentibus promissis inducunt sententiam expromere, qua oraretur Claudius despondere Octaviam Domitio, quod aetati utriusque non absurdum et maiora..."