HABENTES, habentes
Sounds Like: hah-BEN-tays
Translations: having, possessing, holding, those who have, who have, a having one, having ones
From the root: HABEO
Part of Speech: Participle, Adjective, Noun
Explanation: HABENTES is the present active participle of the Latin verb HABEO, meaning 'to have', 'to hold', or 'to possess'. As a participle, it can function as an adjective, describing a noun (e.g., 'the having man'), or as a noun itself, referring to 'those who have' or 'the ones having'. It indicates an ongoing action of having or possessing.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Plural
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 10:2
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 10 — 3:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, HABEO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- HABE — have, hold, possess, consider, regard, treat, keep, get, take, receive, obtain, wear
- HABEANT — they may have, let them have, they might have, they should have
- HABEBIS — you will have, you will hold, you will possess
- HABEBUN — they will have
- HABENT — they have, they hold, they possess, they consider, they keep
- HABENTE — having, possessing, holding, owning, carrying, wearing
- HABEO — I have, I hold, I possess, I consider, I regard, I treat
- HABERENT — they might have, they would have, they had
- HABES — you have, you hold, you possess
- HABET — he has, she has, it has, he possesses, she possesses, it possesses
- HABUERE — they had, they possessed, they held
- HABUERINT — they may have had, they might have had, they should have had, they would have had
- HABUISSET — had had, would have had
- HABUIT — he had, she had, it had
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