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decipit

decipit is a Latin form of decipio, meaning “deceive, cheat, trick”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.13.1: … forte Brutum. id hercle restabat! sed tamen scire pervelim. libri quidem ita exierunt nisi forte me communis decipit, ut in tali genere ne apud Graecos quidem simile quicquam. tu illam iacturam feres aequo animo quod illa quae …

Ovid, Remedia amoris 346: Decipit hac oculos aegide dives Amor.

All forms of decipio (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.