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precari

precari is a Latin form of precor, meaning “pray, beg”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.71: … religiosi fuisse putatis qui nunc tanto scelere se obstrictum esse non sentiat, qui in iudicium veniat ubi ne precari quidem Iovem optimum maximum atque ab eo auxilium petere more omnium possit? a quo etiam di immortales sua re …

All forms of precor (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.