ENTERTAIN Copy link • ENTERTAINAs a host, hospitio accipere, excipere, recipere (accusative and excipere, to entertain friends; recipere, to entertain those who need assistance): convivio excipere: hospitaliter invitare (to entertain at table): to entertain sumptuously, apparatis epulis accipere, excipere, invitare. To entertain (guests) with anything, pascere aliquem aliqua re (e.g., olusculis, Cic.); apponere alicui aliquid (serve it up to him). Amuse, oblectare: delectare [SYN. in AMUSE.] To be entertained, oblectari aliqua re; oblectari et duci aliqua re; delectatione alicujus rei duci; voluptatem ex aliqua re capere, percipere, habere. To entertain one’s self with anything, se oblectare aliqua re; se delectare aliqua re: delectari aliqua re. To amuse with conversation, loqui cum aliquo; confabulari or sermones familiares conferre cum aliquo; habere sermonem cum aliquo de aliqua re (to hold a discourse about anything with anybody): to entertain one’s self very agreeably with anybody, jucundissime loqui cum aliquo. To keep in one’s service, habere (to have): alere (to support, to feed): mercede conducere (to hire): pascere (to feed, especially slaves). To receive anything into the mind; to entertain hatred against anybody, odium habere or odio ferri in aliquem; an affection for anybody, amorem erga aliquem habere; in amore habere, or amore prosequi aliquem; hope, sperare, spem habere: I entertain hopes that, spes me tenet, etc.; a doubt, dubitare; a suspicion, suspicionem habere suspicari; a wish, optare; est in optatis or votis (both with infinitive); an opinion, Vid: OPINION.