contentio: intentio (as action): labor: conatus: (The words are found in this connection and order.) conatus studiumque. To make efforts, niti: conniti: eniti; vain efforts, inanes contentiones or impetus: superfluous or immoderate efforts, effusa contentio: to make great efforts, vires or nervos intendere, or contendere; a very great effort, omni ope atque opera eniti; in anything, acerrime agere aliquid; obnixe facere aliquid: to make immense efforts, contendere et laborare; omni ope atque opera eniti (ut, etc.): to require great efforts, positum esse in labore: to direct all one’s thoughts and efforts to anything, omnem cogitationem ac mentem figere in aliqua re; totum animum atque curam ponere in aliqua re; ad rem omni ferri cogitatione; totum et mente et animo in rem insistere: to make efforts useless, conatum infringere: to make efforts above one’s strength, se supra vires extendere: to make vain efforts, inanes impetus facere; in any matter, frustra conari aliquid: to make efforts above one’s years, praeter aetatem facere: with effort, contente: with great effort, enixe: obnixe: with the greatest efforts, manibus pedibusque: not without the greatest efforts, non sine summa industria.