Latin

Verb

praecipitō ‎(present infinitive praecipitāre, perfect active praecipitāvī, supine praecipitātum); first conjugation

1. I cast down; I throw headlong.

Inflection

Descendants

• French: précipiter
• Italian: precipitare
• Spanish: precipitar

References

• praecipito in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praecipito in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “praecipito”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the Nile rushes down from very high mountains: Nilus praecipitat ex altissimis montibus
    
  • to depose, bring down a person from his elevated position: aliquem ex altissimo dignitatis gradu praecipitare (Dom. 37. 98)
    
• precipitate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911