meditantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →medito, meditare, meditavi, meditatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Medieval
consider/contemplate/ponder; meditate, think about; reflect on; devise/plan;; have in mind, intend; think out, prepare a speech; practice public speaking;; rehearse; go over, say to oneself; declaim, work over (song) in performance;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →meditor, meditari, meditatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
consider/contemplate/ponder; meditate, think about; reflect on; devise/plan;; have in mind, intend; think out, prepare a speech; practice public speaking;; rehearse; go over, say to oneself; declaim, work over (song) in performance;
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...ficti adulatores cum cenas divitum captant, nihil prius meditantur quam id quod putant gratissimum auditoribus fore — nec enim..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...Paphias myrtos a stirpe recuruant et pastorali meditantur proelia trunco, his arcus, his tela sudes, his cassida crines..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...avia nimbosa revocabunt litora bruma. Scilicet hic illi meditantur pondera mores; hic premitur fecunda quies, virtusque serena fronte..."Ecloga V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...lupus insidias pecori, nec retia ceruis ulla dolum meditantur: amat bonus otia Daphnis. Ipsi laetitia uoces ad sidera..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...aspicite, innuptae secum ut meditata requirunt. non frustra meditantur: habent memorabile quod sit; nec mirum, penitus quae tota..."
