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Cretam

Cretam is a Latin form of cerno, meaning “see, perceive; decide”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative singular feminine.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 30: … potestatem, deinde Syriam esse nostram, Ciliciam teneri, Cyprum per Ptolomaeum regem nihil audere, praeterea Cretam Metelli virtute esse nostram, nihil esse unde proficiscantur, nihil quo revertantur, omnis sinus, promunturia …

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 5.3.1: Lacedaemonii vetant suos pancratio aut caestu decernere, ubi inferiorem ostendit victi confessio. Cursor cretam prior contigit ; velocitate illum, non animo antecessit. Luctator ter abiectus perdidit palmam, non tradidit. …

All forms of cerno (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.