petito

petito is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.87: … , magna spe et laetitia omnium discessum est; ac iam animo victoriam praecipiebant, quod de re tanta et a tam petito imperatore nihil frustra confirmari videbatur.

Plautus, Mostellaria 3.1.654: Petito cras.

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.