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excellere

excellere is a Latin form of excello, meaning “excel, be distinguished; (excelsus) high, lofty”. It is the 2nd person singular future passive indicative or 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.68: … estionibus quid ego unam quamque rem colligam et causam? ex multis similibus ea sumam quae maxime improbitate excellere videbuntur. Sopater quidam fuit Halicyensis, homo domi suae cum primis locuples atque honestus; is ab inimici …

All forms of excello (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.