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profecti

profecti is a Latin form of proficiscor, meaning “set out, depart”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural masculine or perfect passive participle genitive singular neuter.

It can also be a form of proficio, “make progress, advance; accomplish, be useful”.

Found 213 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.28.3: Helvetios, Tulingos, Latobrigos in fines suos, unde erant profecti, reverti iussit, et, quod omnibus frugibus amissis domi nihil erat quo famem tolerarent, Allobrogibus imperav …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 4.18.6: Profecti sunt legati non celeri pede.

All forms of proficiscor (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.