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impensius

impensius is a Latin form of impendo, meaning “spend, devote; (impendeo) overhang, threaten”. It is the comparative noun or nominative singular neuter comparative noun or vocative singular neuter comparative noun or accusative singular neuter comparative noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 13.64.1: … ibi in Neronis patrocinio summum esse praesidium. Strabonem Servilium tibi saepe commendavi; nunc eo facio id impensius, quod eius causam Nero suscepit. tantum a te petimus ut agas eam rem ne relinquas hominem innocentem ad alicu …

Jerome, Epistolae 14.1: … incautus, quid tunc agerem, nesciebam. Tacerem? Sed quod ardenter volebam, moderate dissimulare non poteram. Impensius obsecrarem? Sed audire nolebas, quia similiter non amabas. Quod unum potuit, spreta caritas fecit. Quem praes …

All forms of impendo (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.