ponens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pono, ponere, posivi, postus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Early
put, place, set; station; (archaic form of perf. of pono);; put/place/set; station/post (troops); pitch (camp); situate; set up; erect;; specify, put down; cite/quote; locate; depict; classify; assume/suppose; bury;; lay (foundation/keel); found (town), build; plant (trees); provide/serve;; put/lay down (load/arms), take off (clothes); shed (leaves); cut (nails);; esteem/value/count; impose; ordain; lend, put out, offer, wager; rid/drop;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...super humana se extollens, nihil extra se sui ponens. Rationale animal es. Quod ergo in te bonum..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...cuniculis tremeret, sederem otiosus et eiusmodi quaestiunculas ponens: 'quod non perdidisti habes; cornua autem non perdidisti; cornua ergo..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...caecam tremente dextera noctem rege. ingredere praeceps, lubricos ponens gradus, i profuge uade—siste, ne in matrem incidas..."Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...neque vero Aristippus, summum in voluptate corporis bonum ponens, ad hunc nos laborem adhortetur. Pyrrhon quidem quas..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...decimano. is haec loquitur, qui in voluptate nihil ponens negat eum bene cenare, qui omnia ponat in voluptate..."
