Socratos Sign in

parce

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

Found 200 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.71.7: pecus, cuius magna erat copia ab Mandubiis compulsa, viritim distribuit; frumentum parce et paulatim metiri instituit;

Vergil, Aeneid 1.257: Parce metu, Cytherea: manent immota tuorum

Plautus, Persa 4.5.682: Tace, párce voci: praeda progreditur foras.

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.