ceperat

ceperat is a Latin form of capio, meaning “take, seize; capture”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 80 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.35.4: His quam longissime possent egredi iussis, cum iam ex diei tempore coniecturam ceperat in castra perventum, isdem sublicis, quarum pars inferior integra remanebat, pontem reficere coepit.

Lucan, Civil War 1.185: Ceperat. Ut ventum est parvi Rubiconis ad undas,

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.