certare

certare is a Latin form of certo, meaning “(verb) contend, compete, vie; (adv.) certainly, surely”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.65: … . etenim erat eo splendore qui ex clarissimis et pulcherrimis gemmis esse debebat, ea varietate operum ut ars certare videretur cum copia, ea magnitudine ut intellegi posset non ad hominum apparatum sed ad amplissimi templi orn …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.24.1: … eteris putet, ac deinceps quo quemque in loco et honore ponat, his versibus suis demonstrate: Multós incertos cértare hanc rem vidimus, Palmám poetae cómico cui déferant. Eum méo iudicio errórem dissolvám tibi, Ut, cóntra si qu …

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.