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
- M
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..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...insignia triumphi adeptus, datusque rector G. Caesari Armeniam optinenti. Tiberium quoque Rhodi agentem coluerat: quod tunc patefecit..."
