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obtinuit

obtinuit is a Latin form of obtineo, meaning “hold, keep, possess; maintain; obtain”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.71: … lnere interiit; signaque sunt militaria amissa XXXII. Pompeius eo proelio imperator est appellatus. Hoc nomen obtinuit atque ita se postea salutari passus est, sed neque in litteris scribere est solitus, neque in fascibus insign …

All forms of obtineo (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.