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perspicere

perspicere is a Latin form of perspicio, meaning “look through, see clearly; examine; understand”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 75 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.31.2: facilem esse rem, seu maneant, seu proficiscantur, si modo unum omnes sentiant ac probent; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere. Res disputatione ad mediam noctem perducitur.

Plautus, Persa 4.4.552: Hau potui etiam in primo verbo perspiceré sapientiam.

All forms of perspicio (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.