optinebit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →optineo, optinere, optinui, optentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
get hold of; maintain; obtain; hold fast, occupy; prevail;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hercle causa vidua vivito, vel usque dum regnum optinebit Iuppiter. MAT. At mihi negabas dudum surrupuisse te, nunc..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...modestum esse nemo dixerit, fortasse ut sit tutum optinebit. CI. Quod si pars expositionis pro nobis, pars contra..."
