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colitur

colitur is a Latin form of colo, meaning “cultivate, till; inhabit, dwell in; worship, honor; tend, cherish”. It is the 3rd person singular present passive indicative.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.96: … i civitate. Chrysas est amnis qui per Assorinorum agros fluit; is apud illos habetur deus et religione maxima colitur. Fanum eius est in agro, propter ipsam viam qua Assoro itur Hennam; in eo Chrysae simulacrum est praeclare fa …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 19.115.5: … x hominem sonat. Sis felix, nostrumque leves quaecumque laborem. Aderit levabitque, si colere eam voluerimus. Colitur autem non taurorum opimis corporibus contrucidatis nec auro argentoque suspenso nec in thensauros stipe infus …

All forms of colo (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.