petitur

petitur 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 indicative.

Found 107 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 29: … agna res, magna dignitas, summa autem gratia. etenim a vobis salubritas quaedam, ab eis qui dicunt salus ipsa petitur. deinde vestra responsa atque decreta et evertuntur saepe dicendo et sine defensione orationis firma esse non …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.15.8: Petitur ad supplicium ex sententia trium iudicum et contradicit.

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.