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sapit

sapit is a Latin form of sapio, meaning “be wise; taste”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 70 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.65: … ne consulentium principum. Sin per se populus interfecit aut eiecit tyrannum, est moderatior, quoad sentit et sapit, et sua re gesta laetatur tuerique vult per se constitutam rem publicam. Si quando aut regi iusto vim populus …

Plautus, Bacchides 4.4.659_660: péctus quoi sapít: bonus sít bonis, malus sít malis;

Plautus, Epidicus 2.2.286c: Sapit hic pleno pectore.

All forms of sapio (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.