contendo
transitive and intransitive verb III conjugation

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1 to stretch, to draw tight, to make taut
2 (bow or catapult) to draw, to bend
3 to tune
4 to stretch out
5 (fight, law) to compete, to contend, to dispute
6 to compare, to match, to contrast
7 to demand, to press for
8 to strain, to tense
9 to make effort, strive for
10 to speak seriously, to passionately
11 to assert
12 to hurl, to shoot
13 to direct
14 to travel
15 to extend
16 to rush to, to be in a hurry, to hasten

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Locutions, idioms and examples


cohortatus est ut uno ictu contenderent || alicui contendo || ausim contendo (+ accusative + infinitive) || de aliqua re cum aliquo contendo || ad nostra castra contenderunt || ad salutem contendo || ad hostes contendo = to march against the enemy || equum contendo || voce contendo || armis contendo || causas contendo || ea ne fierent restiterat or contendit || sacramento contendo cum aliquo || aliquid contra aequitatem contendo || a militibus contendit ne dimitterent … = he asked the soldiers insistently not to let it escape them … || circumvenire nostros… contendebant || ad oppidum Lemonum contendit || rapido contendo cursu || omnibus nervis contendo || ad exercitum Afranii contendit = he set out against the army of Afranius || beneficium ad eum detuli, qui a me contenderat || ad summam gloria contendo || ad ultimum animo contendo || Bibracte ire contendit || barbaros venisse contendit || Annales contendere cum scriptura eorum qui … || ad moenia Romae contendit iter = he goes towards the walls of Rome || animum in tales curas contendo || apud eos contendit falsa iis esse delata || certo ingenio, contendo nobilitate || a me valde contendit de reditu in gratiam = I highly exhorts me to reconcile || alternis contendere versibus coepere || Labienum praefecit, ipse in Italiam contendit || vociferarer et, quantum maxime possem, contenderem || ad castra Caesaris omnibus copiis contenderunt = they marched with all their forces towards the enemy camp || at Pompeius cognitis his rebus diurnis eo nocturnisque itineribus contendit || ambitu comitatu et immensis salutantium agminibus contendunt comparanturque || annalis nostros cum scriptura eorum contendo qui veteres populi Romani res composuere || Ariovistus respondit … quod sibi Caesaris denuntiaret se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum neminem secum sine sua pernicie contendisse




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