expetendo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →expeto, expetere, expeti, expetitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
ask for; desire; aspire to; demand; happen; fall on (person);
abl. sg. fut. pass. part.abl. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Coguntur nostri verba torquere et unam syllabam expetendo interponere quam sermo noster inseri non sinit. Ego illam..." - M
Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...naturam revertatur? Etenim, cum omnes natura totos se expetendos putent, nec id ob aliam rem, sed propter ipsos..."