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utendum

utendum is a Latin form of utor, meaning “use, employ (+abl.)”. It is the gerundive accusative singular neuter or gerundive nominative singular neuter.

Found 167 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.78.2: illo tamen potius utendum consilio, si res cogat atque auxilia morentur, quam aut deditionis aut pacis subeundam condicionem.

Cicero, De Officiis 2.68: … dunt, quos non debent, aut eos, quos non expedit; si imprudentes, neglegentiae est, si scientes, temeritatis. Utendum etiam est excusatione adversus eos, quos invitus offendas, quacumque possis, quare id, quod feceris, necesse …

All forms of utor (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.