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fiat

fiat is a Latin form of fio, meaning “become, be made; happen”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 542 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.29.5: monet, ut ignes in castris fieri prohibeat, ne qua eius adventus procul significatio fiat: sese confestim subsequi dicit.

Martial, Epigrammata 8.82.8: Fiat et ex hedera civica nostra tibi.

Plautus, Captivi 2.1.214: Fíat. abscédite hinc: nós concedámus huc.

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.