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pecto
pecto
Latin
Verb
pectō (present infinitive pectere, perfect active pēxī, supine pexum); third conjugation
- I comb.
- (of wool) I card, heckle, comb.
- (by extension) I hoe, weed.
- (figuratively) I give someone a thrashing, thrash.
Inflection
The third and fourth principal parts, pexī and pexum, can be written as pexuī and pectitum, respectively, and hence all of their verb forms as such.
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References
- pecto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pecto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pecto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.