extendas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extendo, extendere, extendi, extensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch/thrust out; make taut; extend/prolong/continue; enlarge/increase;; make even/straight/smooth; stretch out in death, (PASS) lie full length;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...istaec nimis lenta vincla sunt escaria: quam magis extendas, tanto adstringunt artius. nam ego ad Menaechmum hunc..."Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...punctum coniectus es, quod ut extendas, quousque extendes? Quid fles? quid optas? perdis operam. Desine fata deum flecti..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...morte tam dolenter afficeris, ut amissi caritatem desiderio extendas, non ut plerique qui tantum viventes amant seu potius..."