ostendo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /osˈten.doː/, [ɔsˈtɛn.doː]
Verb
ostendō (present infinitive ostendere, perfect active ostendī, supine ostentum); third conjugation
- I expose to view, exhibit, show.
- 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
- 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.
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
Inflection
- The supine form also appears as ostēnsum.
References
- 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, 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.
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