certant

certant is a Latin form of certo, meaning “(verb) contend, compete, vie; (adv.) certainly, surely”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 2.25: … do; hinc continentia, illinc libido; hinc denique aequitas, temperantia, fortitudo, prudentia, virtutes omnes certant cum iniquitate, luxuria, ignavia, temeritate, cum vitiis omnibus; postremo copia cum egestate, bona ratio cum …

Statius, Thebais 2.244: Certant laetitia superosque in vota fatigant

All forms of certo (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.