protendat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →protendo, protendere, protendi, protensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch out/forth, extend, distend; hold out; prolong, lengthen;; stretch out/forth, extend, distend; hold out; prolong; lengthen;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...quoque verbo "in" praepositionem metri gratia protendat. Quaerimus igitur, in "obicibus" "o" littera qua ratione intendatur..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...proferre non audeat, alius in quantum patet longitudo protendat, aut ad tectum erigat, aut repetito ultra laevum umerum..."