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