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expavit

expavit is a Latin form of expavesco, meaning “become frightened”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Horace, Carmina 1.37.23: expavit ensem nec latentis

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 55.1: etiam sparsos de se in curia famosos libellos nec expauit et magna cura redarguit ac ne requisitis quidem auctoribus id modo censuit, cognoscendum posthac de iis, qui libellos aut carmina ad infamiam cuiuspiam sub alieno nomine edant.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 5.5.6: Expavit et sic interpretatus est, tamquam idem sibi futurus esset scribendi finis, qui fuisset illi legendi: et fuit idem.

All forms of expavesco (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.