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patent

patent is a Latin form of pateo, meaning “lie open, be open; extend”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 79 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.23.9: Hospitem violare fas non putant; qui quacumque de causa ad eos venerunt, ab iniuria prohibent, sanctos habent, hisque omnium domus patent victusque communicatur.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 1.12.10: … rferendam? Malum est in necessitate vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est. Quidni nulla sit? Patent undique ad libertatem viae multae breves, faciles. Agamus deo gratias, quod nemo in vita teneri potest. Calca …

All forms of pateo (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.