offirmare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →offirmo, offirmare, offirmavi, offirmatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
secure; bolt, lock, fasten, bar; be determined/inflexible; persevere in;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Hecyra
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...quem ego hic audivi loqui? PA. certum offirmare est viam me quam decrevi persequi. LA. ipsus..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Ille non tollere oculos, non remittere stilum, sed offirmare animum auribusque praetendere. Tum crebrescere fragor, adventare..."