festino
Dictionary entries
- Entry →festinus, festina, festinum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
swift/quick/rapid; fast moving (troops); impatient, in a hurry; early/premature;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →festino, festinare, festinavi, festinatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
hasten, hurry;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...canino latrauit rictu quae post hunc uixerat uxor. festino ad nostros et regem transeo Ponti et Croesum, quem..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Compositio (nam finem imponere egresso destinatum modum volumini festino) debet esse honesta iucunda varia. CXLVII. Eius tres partes..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...ipse formavi. Atque ideo maturare libri huius editionem festino, ut dimissa priore cura novae cogitationi toto pectore incumbam..."
