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terret

terret is a Latin form of terreo, meaning “frighten, terrify; deter”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 117: … e perfuga, qui primo sociorum consilia adversariis enuntiavit, deinde societatem cum ipsis adversariis coiit, terret etiam nos ac minatur tribus praediis, hoc est praemiis sceleris, ornatus. in eius modi vita, iudices, in his …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 7.1.1: Terret me haec tua tam pertinax valetudo, et quamquam te temperantissimum noverim, vereor tamen ne quid illi etiam in mores tuos liceat.

All forms of terreo (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.