sponsis
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;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →sponsa, sponsae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
bride; betrothed woman;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →sponsus, sponsi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
bridegroom; betrothed man;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →sponsum, sponsi:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
agreement; consent;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
- G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ventis effluxisse meo forte putes animo, ut missum sponsi furtivo munere malum procurrit casto virginis e gremio, quod..." - P
Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...domo soceri semper spectabere nostri, ut mea se sponsi soletur imagine coniunx.' dixit et in partem Phorcynida transtulit..." - P
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...estis teneris apta theatra modis. me legat in sponsi facie non frigida virgo, et rudis ignoto tactus amore..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...portam Capenam fuit, cognitoque super umeros fratris paludamento sponsi quod ipsa confecerat, solvit crines et flebiliter nomine sponsum..."
