dilatari
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;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...tamen utrumque eorum fundi quodam modo et quasi dilatari putant. [49] Divitias autem Diogenes censet eam modo..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...centurionem, eques equitem, pedes peditem acciperet: neque enim dilatari castra opus esse, ne hostis aduentum alterius consulis sentiret..."