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accidere

accidere is a Latin form of accido, meaning “fall upon, happen”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 244 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.26.4: Tum vero clamore ab ea parte audito nostri redintegratis viribus, quod plerumque in spe victoriae accidere consuevit, acrius impugnare coeperunt.

Ovid, Heroides 21.49: Accidere haec aliquis casu contendit, at alter

All forms of accido (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.