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quaerere

quaerere is a Latin form of quaero, meaning “seek, ask; inquire”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 375 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.39: … captivis quaerit, quis castris ad Bagradam praesit: respondent Saburram. Reliqua studio itineris conficiendi quaerere praetermittit proximaque respiciens signa, videtisne, inquit, milites, captivorum orationem cum perfugis conv …

Ovid, Amores 2.19.40: Quaerere, quid latrent nocte silente canes,

Plautus, Rudens 1.4.224: quaerére conservam, vóce oculis auríbus ut pervestígarem.

All forms of quaero (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.