obsonent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsono, obsonare, obsonavi, obsonatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
buy food, get/purchase provisions/(things for meal); go shopping; feast/banquet;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...noctesque bibite, pergraecamini, amicas emite liberate, pascite parasitos, obsonate pollucibiliter. haecine mandavit tibi, quom peregre hinc it, senex..." - T
Captivi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...requirunt, qui libenter, quom ederint, reddant domi; ipsi obsonant, quae parasitorum ante erat provincia, ipsi de foro..." Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Decipit et captas non sibi maeret aves. CCXVIII Obsonator. Dic quotus et quanti cupias cenare, nec unum Addideris..."