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fieri

fieri is a Latin form of fio, meaning “become, be made; happen”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 2,381 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.42.1: Cognito Caesaris adventu Ariovistus legatos ad eum mittit: quod antea de conloquio postulasset, id per se fieri licere, quoniam propius accessisset seque id sine periculo facere posse existimaret.

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.27: Fieri, inquam, Triari, nullo pacto potest, ut non dicas, quid non probes eius, a quo dissentias. quid enim me prohi …

Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2.722c: Quód solet fíeri hic

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.