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caperet

caperet is a Latin form of capio, meaning “take, seize; capture”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of capero, “to wrinkle; to draw together in wrinkles”.

Found 72 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.13.5: Quare ne committeret ut is locus ubi constitissent ex calamitate populi Romani et internecione exercitus nomen caperet aut memoriam proderet.

All forms of capio (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.