protenderer
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. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quidem," inquit, "ex disciplina." admonitusque fortiter protendere cervicem, "utinam," ait "tu tam fortiter ferias!" et ille multum tremens..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quantum corpus sinebat, vadere in mare; quidam manus protendere. questibus votis clamore diversa rogitantium aut incerta respondentium omnis..."