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gessimus

gessimus is a Latin form of gero, meaning “carry, bear; do, carry on”. It is the 1st person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.84: … st imperare, non omnis honos ab isto dignitatis, aequitatis, officique sublatus est? ecquod in Sicilia bellum gessimus quin Centuripinis sociis, Syracusanis hostibus uteremur? atque haec ego ad memoriam vetustatis, non ad contum …

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.