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adeptus

adeptus is a Latin form of adipiscor, meaning “obtain, get; reach, overtake”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine or perfect deponent participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 139 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 6: … ur huius innocentis patrimonium tam amplum et copiosum posse obtinere, damnato et eiecto sperat se posse quod adeptus est per scelus, id per luxuriam effundere atque consumere. hunc sibi ex animo scrupulum qui se dies noctesque …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.7.10: … anti filiam parvulam, cuius recordatio colebatur, sinu ipse circumferens necessitudinem praetendebat eiusdem. Adeptusque est aliud tempori congruum, quod Faustina matre puellae, casu praesente, quaedam acceperat habitus insigni …

All forms of adipiscor (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.