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
- M
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..." - P
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..."