dilatarent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dilato, dilatare, dilatavi, dilatatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
widen/broaden, expand/enlarge/extend/spread/dilate; prolong; flatten/roll out;; exaggerate, magnify; fill out; express more fully; pronounce more broadly;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...vastationi et privatus consulibus comparatur: quae si quis dilatare velit, plenos singula locos habent. XV. Quas dixi..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ingenio minus ualet, hoc se magis attollere et dilatare conatur, ut statura breues in digitos eriguntur et plura..."