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
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...quoque verbo "in" praepositionem metri gratia protendat. Quaerimus igitur, in "obicibus" "o" littera qua ratione intendatur..."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..."