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
- T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hercle causa vidua vivito, vel usque dum regnum optinebit Iuppiter. MAT. At mihi negabas dudum surrupuisse te, nunc..." - M
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..."