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praecipit

praecipit is a Latin form of praecipio, meaning “instruct, order; take beforehand”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 82 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.56.5: huc iturum per fines Remorum eorumque agros populaturum ac, priusquam id faciat, castra Labieni oppugnaturum. Quae fieri velit praecipit.

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.264: Praecipit imparibus vecta Thalea rotis.

All forms of praecipio (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.