distendens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distendo, distendere, distendi, distentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stretch (apart); spread out; distend; extend; rack; detract, perplex;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uolucres, et contentus iter cauda sulcare parias, oraque distendens auidus fumantia prester, ossaque dissoluens cum corpore tabificus seps..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...parabant: obstitit infelix aditumque obsedit Erinys, nexaque vipereis distendens bracchia nodis caesariem excussit: motae sonuere colubrae, parsque iacent..."