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praecipitat

praecipitat is a Latin form of praecipito, meaning “throw headlong, hurl down; rush headlong; hurry”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.19: … num obsurduerunt; nec est ullus hebetior sensus in vobis, sicut, ubi Nilus ad illa, quae Catadupa nominantur, praecipitat ex altissimis montibus, ea gens, quae illum locum adcolit, propter magnitudinem sonitus sensu audiendi caret. …

Lucan, Civil War 4.209: Praecipitat castris, iunctosque amplexibus ense

All forms of praecipito (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.