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peti

peti is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 91 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.10: … habiturum confideret. Condiciones pacis, quoniam antea convenire non potuissent, Romae ab senatu et a populo peti debere. Interea et rei publicae et ipsis placere oportere, si uterque in contione statim iuravisset se triduo …

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.