petitus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of petō.

Participle

petītus (feminine petīta, neuter petītum); first/second-declension participle

  1. sought

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative petītus petīta petītum petītī petītae petīta
Genitive petītī petītae petītī petītōrum petītārum petītōrum
Dative petītō petītō petītīs
Accusative petītum petītam petītum petītōs petītās petīta
Ablative petītō petītā petītō petītīs
Vocative petīte petīta petītum petītī petītae petīta

References

  • petitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • petitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • petitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • petitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • examples taken from Roman (Greek) history: exempla a rerum Romanarum (Graecarum) memoria petita