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cerni

cerni is a Latin form of cerno, meaning “see, perceive; decide”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.44.1: Haec cogitanti accidere visa est facultas bene rei gerendae. Nam cum in minora castra operis perspiciendi causa venisset, animadvertit collem, qui ab hostibus tenebatur, nudatum hominibus, qui superioribus diebus vix prae multitudine cerni poterat.

All forms of cerno (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.