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parcite

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

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.76: retinete, retinete hominem in civitate, iudices, parcite et conservate, ut sit qui vobiscum res iudicet, qui in senatu sine ulla cupiditate de bello et pace sententia …

Vergil, Eclogues 3.94: Parcite, oves, nimium procedere; non bene ripae

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.