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stare

stare is a Latin form of sto, meaning “stand, stand still”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 335 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.41: … tate facta Afranius copias educit et in medio colle sub castris constituit. Caesar, ubi cognovit per Afranium stare, quo minus proelio dimicaretur, ab infimis radicibus montis intermissis carciter passibus ecce castra facere …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.75: Stare deum pelagi longoque ferire tridente

Plautus, Menaechmi 2.3.362: te hic stáre foris, fores quoí pateant,

All forms of sto (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.