sponderi
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;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...sperari potuerit: quid enim de illo non tuto sponderi fratre posset? Haec, utcumque potui, longo iam situ obsoleto..."XVI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...desideravit vicarium corpus, amplexus est catenas; sponderi sibi voluit hominem rediturum per maria, per matrem; repromisit de incertis..."
