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fando

fando is a Latin form of for, meaning “speak, say (fari)”. It is the gerundive ablative singular neuter or gerundive ablative singular masculine or gerundive dative singular neuter or gerundive dative singular masculine.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.63: … m Orestem fabulam doceret Euripides, primos tris versus revocasse dicitur Socrates: Neque tám terribilis úlla fando orátio est, Nec fórs nec ira caélitum invectúm malum, Quod nón natura humána patiendo écferat. est autem util …

Vergil, Aeneid 2.81: Fando aliquod si forte tuas pervenit ad auris

All forms of for (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.