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
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..."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..."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..."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..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...vehementius ictu missuque telum. Statarius uterque miles, ordines servans; sed illa phalanx immobilis et unius generis, Romana acies..."
