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petatur

petatur is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the 3rd person singular present passive subjunctive.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.43: … ando te rationem factorum tuorum redditurum putasti? ecquando his de rebus talis viros audituros existimasti? petatur hereditas ea, quae nulla debetur, in praedam praetoris? interponatur nomen civitatis? imponatur honestae civi …

All forms of peto (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.