tensas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tendo, tendere, tetendi, tensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch/spread/extend; distend; aim/direct weapon/glance/steps/course; strive;; pitch tent, encamp; pull tight; draw (bow); press on, insist; exert oneself;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →tensa, tensae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
wagon on which the images of the gods were carried to public spectacles;
acc. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uolatueffingunt uarias casu monstrante figuras;mox, ubi percussit tensas Notus altior alas,confusos temere inmixtae glomerantur in orbes..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...fusa ratio, et, si non statim rectissima linea tensa, facilior tamen et apertior via. Discant igitur ante omnia..." 
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...diem terebat, horarum via facta vix duarum. non tensae volucrum per astra pennae, nec velocius ibitis, carinae..."- T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...natum initium dicitur fori ornandi ab aedilibus cum tensae ducerentur. Et Romani quidem ad honorem deum insignibus armis..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...virtutis insignibus morerentur, quae augustissima vestis est tensas ducentibus triumphantibusue, ea vestiti medio aedium eburneis sellis sedere. Sunt..."