protenderet
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. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...tristem conscendere montes, unde aciem in pelagi vastos protenderet aestus, tum tremuli salis adversas procurrere in undas mollia..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...ingens multitudo artis locis praelongas hastas non protenderet, non colligeret, neque adsultibus et velocitate corporum uteretur, coacta stabile..."