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geras

geras is a Latin form of gero, meaning “carry, bear; do, carry on”. It is the 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 1.37: … oste, itemque: adversus hostem aeterna auctoritas. Quid ad hanc mansuetudinem addi potest, eum, quicum bellum geras, tam molli nomine appellare? Quamquam id nomen durius effect iam vetustas; a peregrino enim recessit et propr …

Vitruvius, On Architecture 10.13.2: … um transversum uti trutinam suspendit et reducendo et inpellendo vementibus plagis deiecit Gaditanorum murum. Geras autem Chalcedonius de materia primum basim subiectis rotis fecit supraque compegit arrectariis et iugis varas …

All forms of gero (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.