petens

petens is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 111 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.86: at etiam misericordiam captabas: supplex te ad pedes abiciebas. quid petens? ut servires? tibi uni peteres qui ita a puero vixeras ut omnia paterere, ut facile servires; a nobis populoq …

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.