ostendo
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]For *obstendō, from obs- + tendō. Compare obtendō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /osˈten.doː/, [ɔs̠ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /osˈten.do/, [osˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
[edit]ostendō (present infinitive ostendere, perfect active ostendī, supine ostentum or ostensum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to expose to view, exhibit, show
- Synonyms: praebeō, ostentō, prōdō, indicō, prōpōnō, expōnō, prōferō, prōtrahō, profiteor, vulgō, gerō, praestō, coarguō, fateor, acclārō
- 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
- Sīcut ergō, cum vitium oculōrum dīcitur caecitās, id ostenditur, quod ad nātūram oculōrum pertinet vīsus; et cum vitium aurium dīcitur surditās, ad eārum nātūram pertinēre dēmōnstrātur audītus: ita, cum vitium creātūrae angelicae dīcitur, quō nōn adhaeret Deō, hinc apertissimē dēclārātur, eius nātūrae ut Deō adhaereat convenīre.
- As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.
- Sīcut ergō, cum vitium oculōrum dīcitur caecitās, id ostenditur, quod ad nātūram oculōrum pertinet vīsus; et cum vitium aurium dīcitur surditās, ad eārum nātūram pertinēre dēmōnstrātur audītus: ita, cum vitium creātūrae angelicae dīcitur, quō nōn adhaeret Deō, hinc apertissimē dēclārātur, eius nātūrae ut Deō adhaereat convenīre.
- (transitive) to reveal, expose, make known
- (transitive) to explain, clarify
- (transitive) to presage, predict
- (transitive) to represent, depict
- (transitive) to mean, signify
Conjugation
[edit]- The supine form also appears as ostēnsum.
Conjugation of ostendō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ostendo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “ostendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ostendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ostendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
- to demonstrate by instances: aliquid exemplis ostendere
- to rouse a vain, groundless hope in some one's mind: spem falsam alicui ostendere
- he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
- “ostend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.