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carpere

carpere is a Latin form of carpo, meaning “pluck, pick; graze; enjoy, seize; carp at”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 60 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 3.142: carpere prata fuga fluviosque innare rapacis.

Martial, Epigrammata 1.91.2: Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua.

All forms of carpo (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.