plan (v.) Copy link Outline I. To arrange, purpose1. intendo, di, tum and sum, 32. expr. by consĭlium, with a verb3. cōgĭto, excōgĭto, 1II. To design1. dēsigno, 12. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (to draw out as in a diagram) • plan (v.): I. To arrange, purpose: 1. intendo, di, tum and sum, 3: nor can he carry out what he had p.'d, neque quod intenderat efficere potest, Sall. Jug. 25: so, with animo (animis, of more than one), Cic. Ph. 10, 4, 9. Foll. by inf.: v. to intend. 2. expr. by consĭlium, with a verb: v. preced. art. 3. cōgĭto, excōgĭto, 1: v. to devise. (Molior implies action as well as planning: cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 25, moliens de occupando regno, scheming and taking steps with a view to usurpation.) II. To design: 1. dēsigno, 1: to (mark out and) p. the walls of a city, moenia urbis d., Vitr. 2, pref. § 2: to p. the universe, omnium rerum descriptionem d., Cic. N. D. 1, 11, init. 2. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (to draw out as in a diagram): Join: dimetiri atque describere, Cic. Sen. 17, 59. (To p. a building, formam aedificii describere, rather than simply aedificium d.: v. plan, subs. II.)