The corpus record — Latin

contendo

contendo · v. a

to stretch, stretch out vigorously, to draw tight, strain

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Distribution

Timotheus 2 · 30.72/10k
Aristides 1 · 29.24/10k
Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
De Bello Africo 23 · 17.68/10k
De bello Gallico 85 · 16.57/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 12 · 13.88/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 13 · 12.47/10k
Vitellius 3 · 12.46/10k
Epaminondas 2 · 11.98/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 7 · 11.56/10k

Densest 12 of 194 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

con-tendo — Lewis & Short

to stretch, stretch out vigorously, to draw tight, strain

Attestations

contendebant Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.26
contendens Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.14
contendentem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.10
contentos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.10.3
contendentes Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.50
contendebat Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.3.2

6 of 1,070 attestations shown.

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