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metuit

metuit is a Latin form of metuo, meaning “fear, be afraid (of)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 89 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.6: … s de iudiciis transferendis recusare. tametsi de absolutione istius neque ipse iam sperat nec populus Romanus metuit: de impudentia singulari, quod adest, quod respondet, sunt qui mirentur. mihi pro cetera eius audacia atque a …

Terence, Phormio 2.3.428b: Metuit hic nos, tametsi sedulo

Plautus, Poenulus 5.4.1191: Omnía faciet Iuppíter faxo, nam mi ést obnoxius ét me metuít.

All forms of metuo (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.