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gerebat

gerebat is a Latin form of gero, meaning “carry, bear; do, carry on”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 84 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.25.3: Atque nostris militibus cunctantibus, maxime propter altitudinem maris, qui X legionis aquilam gerebat, obtestatus deos, ut ea res legioni feliciter eveniret, ' desilite', inquit, ' milites, nisi vultis aquilam h …

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.11: … beato gressu gestuosus. Ferebatur ab alio cista secretorum capax penitus celans operta magnificae religionis. Gerebat alius felici suo gremio summi numinis venerandam effigiem, non pecoris, non avis, non ferae, ac ne hominis qu …

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.