devinctam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devincio, devincire, devinxi, devinctus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tie/bind up, hold/fix fast; subjugate; obligate/oblige/constrain; unite closely;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →devinctus, devincta -um, devinctior -or -us, devinctissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
attached; tied (to a person); devoted, greatly attached to (L+S);
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...spumosa ad litora Diae venerit aut ut eam devinctam lumina somno liquerit immemori discedens pectore coniunx? saepe illam..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nuptam esse se dictitans, nec posse matrimonium omittere, devinctam Othoni per genus vitae, quod nemo adaequaret: illum animo..."
