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tendere

tendere is a Latin form of tendo, meaning “stretch, extend; aim, direct; make one's way; strive; pitch (a tent)”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 96 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.13.2: … Caesar cum exercitu circiter milia passuum V abesset, omnes maiores natu ex oppido egressi manus ad Caesarem tendere et voce significare coeperunt sese in eius fidem ac potestatem venire neque contra populum Romanum armis cont …

Ovid, Heroides 20.78: Tendere submissas ad tua crura manus!

All forms of tendo (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.