peto.
to ask, beg, request, look for, inquire, petition, entreat
Meaning & usage
to ask, beg, request, look for, inquire, petition, entreat
to make for (somewhere)
to seek, aim at, desire
Auxilium Deī Dominī nostrī petō.
Altiōra petō.
to beg, beseech, implore
to beg, beseech, implore to beg of/from someone (ab + ablative) for something (+ accusative or a clause with ut or ne)
to attack, to assail, to thrust at
Petere aliquem hastā.
to aim at (with the person attacked in the accusative and the weapon/projectile in the ablative)
to missionize or proselytize among the people of a place
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti (“to fly”), assuming a semantic shift from “to fly towards” to “to try to reach”.
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