optinentis
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;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...traditur, ut, cum ei summam in scholis opinionem optinenti causa in foro esset oranda, inpense petierit uti subsellia..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...insignia triumphi adeptus, datusque rector G. Caesari Armeniam optinenti. Tiberium quoque Rhodi agentem coluerat: quod tunc patefecit..."
