petit

petit 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 active indicative or 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 569 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.19.5: Petit atque hortatur ut sine eius offensione animi vel ipse de eo causa cognita statuat vel civitatem statuere iubeat.

Vitruvius, On Architecture 1.4.12: … nibus doctissime quaesitis secundum mare mercatus est possessionem loco salubri ab senatuque populoque Romano petît, ut liceret transferre oppidum, constituitque moenia et areas divisit nummoque sestertio singulis municipibus …

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.