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velitis

velitis is a Latin form of volo, meaning “want, wish, be willing”. It is the 2nd person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.77: … bis ut, si istis hominibus delectemini, si ex eo genere splendorem ordini atque ornamentum curiae constituere velitis, habeatis sane istum vobiscum senatorem, etiam de vobis iudicem, si vultis, habeatis; de se homines, si qui e …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 6.40.16: quos uelitis facere liceat." an aliter [rogat] qui utique alterum ex plebe fieri consulem iubet nec duos patricios creandi potestatem uobis permittit?

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.19.9: Eius rogationis verba haec sunt: Velitis, iubeatis, uti L. Valerius L. Titio tam iure legeque filius siet, quam si ex eo patre matreque familias eius …

All forms of volo (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.