spondebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spondeo, spondere, spepondi, sponsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
promise, give pledge/undertaking/surety; contract to give/take in marriage;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...matrimonium datum ... iri; qui ducturus erat, itidem spondebat. Is contractus stipulationum sponsionumque dicebatur "sponsalia". Tunc, quae promissa erat..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...monstratumque nefas: uni remeabile bellum, et tristes domino spondebat harundo recursus..."