devinctos
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. pl. 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. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Rufrius Crispinus, quos Messalinae memores et liberis eius devinctos credebat. igitur distrahi cohortis ambitu duorum..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...quasi dimissos consulatu, sed quasi adstrictos et devinctos putemus; eundemque locum laboris et curae, quem reverentiae dignitatisque, teneamus..."
