coercere

coercere is a Latin form of coerceo, meaning “restrain, check, control; confine”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.208: … itare utrum sit utilius propter multos improbos uni parcere, an unius improbi supplicio multorum improbitatem coercere.

Tacitus, Agricola 20.2: sed ubi aestas advenit, contracto exercitu multus in agmine, laudare modestiam, disiectos coërcere; loca castris ipse capere, aestuaria ac silvas ipse praetemptare; et nihil interim apud hostis quietum pati, …

All forms of coerceo (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.