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emi

emi is a Latin form of emo, meaning “buy”. It is the 1st person singular perfect active indicative or present passive infinitive.

Found 84 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.6: quod, cum neque emi neque ex agris sumi possit, tam necessario tempore, tam propinquis hostibus ab iis non sublevetur, praesertim cum magna ex parte eorum precibus adductus bellum susceperit[; multo etiam gravius quod sit destitutus queritur].

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.6.4: Quod me quamquam tirunculum sollicitavit ad emendum. Emi autem non ut haberem domi - neque enim ullum adhuc Corinthium domi habeo -, verum ut in patria nostra celebri loco ponerem, ac potissimum in Iovis templo;

Plautus, Epidicus 2.2.295b: Quanti émi potest minimo?

All forms of emo (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.