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dedit

dedit is a Latin form of do, meaning “give; put; grant”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of dedo, “give up, surrender”.

Found 1,497 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.21.3: quod non longius hostes aberant quam quo telum adigi posset, proelii committendi signum dedit.

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.122: Dedit autem eadem natura beluis et sensum et appetitum, ut altero conatum haberent ad naturales pastus capessendos, …

All forms of do (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.