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potiti

potiti is a Latin form of potior, meaning “(verb) get possession of, obtain (+abl./gen.); (adj., comp.) better, preferable”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural masculine or perfect passive participle vocative plural masculine or perfect passive participle genitive singular neuter or perfect passive participle genitive singular masculine.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.26.4: Diu cum esset pugnatum, impedimentis castrisque nostri potiti sunt. Ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est.

Cicero, De Republica 2.54: … ne provocatione creatos, satis ostenderit reliquos sine provocatione magistratus non fuisse; Luciique Valerii Potiti et M. Horatii Barbati, hominum concordiae causa sapienter popularium, consularis lex sanxit, ne qui magistrat …

All forms of potior (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.