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adest

adest is a Latin form of adsum, meaning “be present, be at hand; help”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 354 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 17: … m, iudices, iniuria metuebat. nam duo isti sunt T. Titi Roscii, quorum alteri Capitoni cognomen est, iste qui adest Magnus vocatur, homines eius modi: alter plurimarum palmarum vetus ac nobilis gladiator habetur, hic autem nu …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.3.4: Adest enim adulescenti nostro cum ceteris naturae fortunaeque dotibus eximia corporis pulchritudo, cui in hoc lubrico aetatis non praeceptor modo sed custos etiam rectorque quaerendus est.

Plautus, Bacchides 4.9.987: nunc súperum limen scínditur, nunc ádest exitium Ílio,

All forms of adsum (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.