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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of petō.
Participle
petītus (feminine petīta, neuter petītum); first/second-declension participle
- sought
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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