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praestat

praestat is a Latin form of praesto, meaning “excel; provide; (adv.) at hand”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 190 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.2: … s est, quod non solum ab re publica civem improbum removet, verum etiam se ipsum eius modi fore profitetur ac praestat ut sibi non modo communi voluntate virtutis atque offici, sed etiam vi quadam magis necessaria recte sit hone …

Vergil, Aeneid 3.429: Praestat Trinacrii metas lustrare Pachyni

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.8.5.2: Cuius fácta viva núnc vigent, qui apud géntes solus praéstat,

All forms of praesto (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.