expetenda

expetenda is a Latin form of expeto, meaning “desire, seek after; ask for”. It is the gerundive nominative plural neuter or gerundive vocative plural neuter or gerundive accusative plural neuter or gerundive ablative singular feminine.

Found 71 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.43: … ustissimus fuit sapientissimusque rex, tamen mihi populi res (ea enim est, ut dixi antea, publica) non maxime expetenda fuisse illa videtur, cum regeretur unius nutu ac modo; si Massilienses, nostri clientes, per delectos et prin …

Cicero, Topica 84: cum autem quaeritur quale quid sit, aut simpliciter quaeritur aut comparate simpliciter: Expetendane sit gloria; comparate: Praeponendane sit divitiis gloria. Simplicium tria genera sunt: de expetendo fugiend …

All forms of expeto (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.