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parcas

parcas is a Latin form of parco, meaning “spare, refrain from (+dat.)”. It is the 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of parcus, “sparing, frugal, thrifty; scanty”.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 13.8.3: … te plane rogo atque ita, ut maiore studio, iustiore de causa, magis ex animo rogare nihil possim, ut Albinio parcas, praedia Laberiana ne attingas. Magna me adfeceris non modo laetitia, sed etiam quodam modo gloria, si P. Ses …

Vergil, Aeneid 1.22: venturum excidio Libyae: sic volvere Parcas.

All forms of parco (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.