Meaning of licet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to be allowed; to be permitted
   conjugation-2
2. third-person singular present active indicative of liceō
   active, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
3. although, even if
   conjugation-2

Equivalents

Examples

“Licetne pauca?”

May I speak a word with you?

“Quod licet Iovī, nōn licet bovī”

Gods may do what cattle may not

“[…] quī dīcerent sibi esse in animō sine ūllō maleficiō iter per prōvinciam facere, proptereā quod aliud iter habērent nūllum; rogāre ut ēius voluntāte id sibi facere liceat.”

[These envoys] were to say that they intended to make a journey through the province without any harm, for the reason that they had no other route; [and] they were to ask that it be permitted to do so with his consent.

“Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.”

To whom it is allowed to sin, sins less.

“licet ipse negam”

even if I were to deny it

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