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ostentat

ostentat is a Latin form of ostento, meaning “show off, display; hold out, offer”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.23.3: … rae consanguineus non mediocris terrores iacit atque denuntiat et Sampsiceramo negat, ceteris prae se fert et ostentat. quam ob rem si me amas tantum quantum profecto amas, si dormis expergiscere, si stas ingredere, si ingrederi …

Terence, Eunuchus 3.2.482: Ostentat; neque tibi obstat, quod quidam facit:

Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1.219_220: quod díssuasit, id osténtat.

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.