praecipiti

praecipiti is a Latin form of praeceps, meaning “headlong, head first; steep; rash; (noun) cliff, edge, danger”. It is the ablative singular neuter adjective.

Found 100 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.33.3: … bilitatem peditum in proeliis praestant, ac tantum usu cotidiano et exercitatione efficiunt uti in declivi ac praecipiti loco incitatos equos sustinere et brevi moderari ac flectere et per temonem percurrere et in iugo insistere e …

Tacitus, Historiae 3.89: Praecipiti in occasum die ob pavorem magistratuum senatorumque, qui dilapsi ex urbe aut per domos clientium semet occult …

All forms of praeceps (declension 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.