deprecari

deprecari is a Latin form of deprecor, meaning “pray against, ward off by prayer; beg, entreat; plead”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.31.4: Unum petere ac deprecari: si forte pro sua clementia ac mansuetudine, quam ipsi ab aliis audirent, statuisset Atuatucos esse conservandos, ne se armis despoliaret.

Petronius, Satyricon 49: … minum non coniecisse. Despolia.” Non fit mora, despoliatur cocus atque inter duos tortores maestus consistit. Deprecari tamen omnes coeperunt et dicere: “Solet fieri; rogamus, mittas; postea si fecerit, nemo nostrum pro illo roga …

All forms of deprecor (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.