servans
Dictionary entries
- Entry →servo, servare, servavi, servatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
watch over; protect, store, keep, guard, preserve, save;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →servans, servantis (gen.), servantior -or -us, servantissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ready to maintain (law/principle);
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (all)voc. sg. (all)
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...Thracia Bistoniasque plagas atque Ismara propter aureaque Hesperidum servans fulgentia mala, asper, acerba tuens, immani corpore serpens arboris..." - P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...antiqua e cedro, Italusque paterque Sabinus vitisator curvam servans sub imagine falcem, Saturnusque senex Ianique bifrontis imago vestibulo..." - P
Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...spumas salis aere ruebant, cum Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore volnus, haec secum: 'Mene incepto desistere victam..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...funditoresque omnes sinistro cornu obiecerat. Caesar superius institutum servans decimam legionem in dextro cornu, nonam in sinistro collocaverat..." - T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...vehementius ictu missuque telum. Statarius uterque miles, ordines servans; sed illa phalanx immobilis et unius generis, Romana acies..."