extendo
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. ind. 1st
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...exigat poenas sibi reddamque uitam—fata an extendo mea mortemque, coniunx, ad tuas seruo manus? uirtusne superest aliqua..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...adeo tu in scholam revocas, ego adhuc Saturnalia extendo — librum misisti. Num potui longius hyperbaton facere, atque..."