oppeto

oppeto

Latin

Etymology

    From ob- + petō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    oppetō (present infinitive oppetere, perfect active oppetīvī or oppetiī, supine oppetītum); third conjugation

    1. to go to meet; to encounter
    2. to perish (encounter death)

    Conjugation

    References

    • oppeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • oppeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • oppeto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to meet death (by violence): mortem oppetere