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pacto

pacto is a Latin form of pactum, meaning “agreement, pact; way, manner (quo pacto: how)”.

It can also be a form of pacisco, “(paciscor) make a bargain, agree; (pactum) agreement”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter.

Found 382 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.83.5: quid quoque pacto agi placeat occulte inter se constituunt; adeundi tempus definiunt, cum meridies esse videatur.

Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.1178b: At scin quo pácto me ad te intro ábducas?

Plautus, Poenulus 4.1.817: Exspécto quo pactó meae techinaé processuraé sient.

All forms of pactum (declension 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.