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ostentare

ostentare is a Latin form of ostento, meaning “show off, display; hold out, offer”. It is the 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.19.3: … s prope aequo Marte ad dimicandum existimaret, qui iniquitatem condicionis perspiceret inani simulatione sese ostentare cognosceret.

All forms of ostento (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.