expetendum

expetendum is a Latin form of expeto, meaning “desire, seek after; ask for”. It is the gerundive genitive plural neuter or gerundive genitive plural masculine or gerundive accusative singular masculine or gerundive nominative singular neuter.

Found 54 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta 14: nam nisi multorum praeceptis multisque litteris mihi ab adulescentia suasissem nihil esse in vita magno opere expetendum nisi laudem atque honestatem, in ea autem persequenda omnis cruciatus corporis, omnia pericula mortis atque e …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 19.117.5: … et unam syllabam expetendo interponere, quam sermo noster inseri non sinit. Ego illam, si pateris, adiungam. Expetendum est, inquiunt, quod bonum est: expetibile, quod nobis contingit, cum bonum consecuti sumus. Non petitur tamqu …

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.