display Copy link Outline 1. ostento, 1 (to make a show of)2. prae (me, te, etc.), fĕro, tŭli, etc. (like ostento)3. in promptu pōno, pŏsui, etc.4. exprōmo, prompsi, promptum, 3 (to bring forth to light)5. praebeo, 2 (to show, evince by outward signs)6. praefĕro (like prae me fero, v. supr.), 37. ostendo, di, sum and tum, 3 • display: 1. ostento, 1 (to make a show of): Join: prae se ferre et ostentare, Cic. 2. prae (me, te, etc.), fĕro, tŭli, etc. (like ostento): to d. and avow one's guilt, scelus prae se ferre et confiteri, Cic. (v. supr.). Simly, prae se gerere, Auct. B. Afr.; prae se declarare, Cat. 3. in promptu pōno, pŏsui, etc.: Cic. (of the parts of the body which nature displays). Simly, in promptu habere, Sall.; gerere, Pl. 4. exprōmo, prompsi, promptum, 3 (to bring forth to light): you d.'d your cruelty, crudelitatem tuam exprompsisti, Cic. 5. praebeo, 2 (to show, evince by outward signs): to d. joy, fear, gaudium, metum pr., Liv.: v. to show. 6. praefĕro (like prae me fero, v. supr.), 3: to d. one's feelings openly, pr. sensus aperte, Cic. 7. ostendo, di, sum and tum, 3: v. to show. Phr.: to d. a little too openly, ferre paulo apertius, Cic.: to d. valour, virtutem probare, Caes.: to d. signs of terror, timoris signa mittere, Caes.: Virg.: with plate d.'d and pictures arranged for show, proposito argento, tabulisque propalam collocatis, Cic.: to d. a flag, vexillum proponere, Caes.: Ov.
display (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ostentus, ūs (any show)2. ostentātio (an ostentatious d.)3. jactātio • display (subs.): 1. ostentus, ūs (any show): v. show. 2. ostentātio (an ostentatious d.): even a suspicion of d. of ability must be avoided, vitanda etiam ingenii ostentationis suspicio, Cic. 3. jactātio: a d. of learning, eruditionis j., Quint.: no d. of dress, nulla cultus j., Tac.: v. parade. Phr.: to make a d. of anything, prae se ferre, in promptu ponere, etc.: v. to display.
DISPLAY Copy link • DISPLAY 1. To set to view ostentatiously, ostentare aliquid: in promptu ponere (to set before people’s eyes, in general; Vid: Cic., Off., 1, 35, 126): proponere (set forth to view; e.g., his plate, argentum, Cic.): propalam collocare (e.g., tabulas, signa, Cic.): prae se ferre (litrally, to carry before one’s self, to make a show of): expromere (to bring forth or to light): venditare or ostentare (to display one’s learning, literulas suas, in a contemptuous sense). To display for sale, aliquid venale exponere or proponere. To exhibit, ostendere (to show openly, to lay before the eyes of people; e.g., potestatem suam, one’s power): patefacere (to reveal, discover; e.g., odium in aliquem): exhibere (alicui: e.g., one’s good will, benevolentiam): praebere alicui (to prove anything to anybody e.g., fidelity, fidem): praestare (alicui, to render, to show by one’s conduct; e.g., fidem, benevolentiam, animum): probare (to give proof of; e.g., virtutem): navare (anything towards anybody, in aliquem, with accessary notion of its being done with anxiety; e.g., studium alicui; benevolentiam suam in aliquem). To DISPLAY ITSELF, apparere (to come to light); also elucere (litrally, to shine forth; e.g., friendship displays itself more among those that are of the same age, amicitia magis elucet inter aequales). His character displays itself, *indoles ejus sese ostendit or clarius conspicitur; more and more, ejus ingenii vires in dies magis elucent. [Vid: To DISCOVER itself.] To carve, to cut up; Vid: these words. 2. s. Exhibition of, Vid: In a contemptuous sense, ostentatio; e.g., display of one’s learning, *doctrinae suae venditatio quaedam atque ostentatio; of one’s knowledge, etc., ostentatio artis et portentosa scientiae venditatio (as Plin., 29, 1, 8, § 25, speaking of the barefacedness of medical men). By circumlocution, he set out his plate for display, argentum proposuit; tabulas et signa propalam eollocavit (Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 35, 161): to make a display of one’s learning; Vid: To DISPLAY.