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legendi

legendi is a Latin form of lego, meaning “read; gather, choose”. It is the gerundive genitive singular masculine.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.6: … aecis? nam si dicent ab illis has res esse tractatas, ne ipsos quidem Graecos est cur tam multos legant, quam legendi sunt. quid enim est a Chrysippo praetermissum in Stoicis? legimus tamen Diogenem, Antipatrum, Mnesarchum, Pan …

Cicero, On Oratory 1.158: Legendi etiam poetae, cognoscendae historiae, omnium bonarum artium doctores atque scriptores eligendi et pervolutand …

All forms of lego (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.