amplecti

amplecti is a Latin form of amplector, meaning “embrace, clasp; welcome, cherish; include”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 4.3: … eam mentem non domum saepe revocat exanimata uxor et abiecta metu filia et parvolus filius, quem mihi videtur amplecti res publica tamquam obsidem consulatus mei, neque ille qui exspectans huius exitum diei stat in conspectu meo …

Ovid, Heroides 16.272: Amplectique tuos, si patiare, pedes.

Plautus, Persa 5.1.774: ab dís, quia te licet líberam med amplécti.

All forms of amplector (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.