contenderent

contenderent is a Latin form of contendo, meaning “strive, hasten; compare; assert”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.13.4: … opere virtuti tribueret aut ipsos despiceret. Se ita a patribus maioribusque suis didicisse, ut magis virtute contenderent quam dolo aut insidiis niterentur.

All forms of contendo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.