oft
oft
adv.
See often.
adv.
See often.
OFT OFTEN OFTTIMES
saepe saepe numero (often; opposed to semel nonnunquam semper like πολλάκις): crebro frequenter (opposed to raro: crebro often and in quick succession and rather too often; frequenter of a subject or agent): compluries (several times; not pluries which is only a conjecture Caes. B.C. 1 79): multum (much many times): non raro (not seldom). [Multoties is very late.] Also by the adjective frequens when a person is the agent but not when a thing is spoken of (hence ille frequens est nobiscum; illi frequentes Antonii domum ventitant; frequens aderat in senatu; ☞ but not haec sententia veteribus frequens commemoratur). Also by solere and frequentative verbs; e.g. I often do this soleo aliquid facere: to read often lectitare: to visit often frequentare: more often saepius crebrius: very often persaepe saepissime: too often nimium saepe: saepius justo: how often quam saepe; quoties: so often tam saepe; toties: as often as quoties; quotiescumque.
saepe saepe numero (often; opposed to semel nonnunquam semper like πολλάκις): crebro frequenter (opposed to raro: crebro often and in quick succession and rather too often; frequenter of a subject or agent): compluries (several times; not pluries which is only a conjecture Caes. B.C. 1 79): multum (much many times): non raro (not seldom). [Multoties is very late.] Also by the adjective frequens when a person is the agent but not when a thing is spoken of (hence ille frequens est nobiscum; illi frequentes Antonii domum ventitant; frequens aderat in senatu; ☞ but not haec sententia veteribus frequens commemoratur). Also by solere and frequentative verbs; e.g. I often do this soleo aliquid facere: to read often lectitare: to visit often frequentare: more often saepius crebrius: very often persaepe saepissime: too often nimium saepe: saepius justo: how often quam saepe; quoties: so often tam saepe; toties: as often as quoties; quotiescumque.
oft, often:
1. saepe: pass. The compar. saepius is oft. used with quasi-*positive sense: it needs to be o. (again and again) repeated, saepius est dicendum, Cic. Am. 22, 85: Virg. Often strengthened, saepenumero (oftentimes): Caes. B. G. 1, 33: Cic. Very often, persaepe, Cic. (N.B.--Saepenumero, like saepius, lays more stress on the thing mentioned: cf. Cic. Sen. 2, init., saepenumero admirari soleo, oftentimes, or again and again have I, etc.)
2. crēbro (frequently; in close succession: whereas saepe denotes simply many times). v.FREQUENTLY (where the use of frequens, frequenter, etc., is explained).
3. complūries (a good many times infreq.): Cato in Gell. 5, 21, extr.: Pl
4. how often, so often, quŏties, tŏties (neither necessarily implying any large number of times): how o. did night overtake him ..., quoties illum nox oppressit ..., Cic. Sen. 14, 49: as o. as, toties ... quoties, id. Fam. 7, 7: Liv. Virg. Hence, how o. soever, as o. as ever quotiescunque; foll. by toties as correl. Cic. Clu. 18, 51. Pretty o., aliquoties: Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9: Liv. (N.B.--Sometimes expr. by frequent. verb: to cry out o., again and again, clamito; to write o., scriptito: etc. See the several verbs.)
1. saepe: pass. The compar. saepius is oft. used with quasi-*positive sense: it needs to be o. (again and again) repeated, saepius est dicendum, Cic. Am. 22, 85: Virg. Often strengthened, saepenumero (oftentimes): Caes. B. G. 1, 33: Cic. Very often, persaepe, Cic. (N.B.--Saepenumero, like saepius, lays more stress on the thing mentioned: cf. Cic. Sen. 2, init., saepenumero admirari soleo, oftentimes, or again and again have I, etc.)
2. crēbro (frequently; in close succession: whereas saepe denotes simply many times). v.
3. complūries (a good many times infreq.): Cato in Gell. 5, 21, extr.: Pl
4. how often, so often, quŏties, tŏties (neither necessarily implying any large number of times): how o. did night overtake him ..., quoties illum nox oppressit ..., Cic. Sen. 14, 49: as o. as, toties ... quoties, id. Fam. 7, 7: Liv. Virg. Hence, how o. soever, as o. as ever quotiescunque; foll. by toties as correl. Cic. Clu. 18, 51. Pretty o., aliquoties: Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9: Liv. (N.B.--Sometimes expr. by frequent. verb: to cry out o., again and again, clamito; to write o., scriptito: etc. See the several verbs.)