Meaning of paeniteo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to cause (someone) to regret or repent
   conjugation-2, transitive
2. to regret, repent; to be sorry
   conjugation-2, intransitive
3. (with accusative of person, genitive of thing or infinitive) to regret
   conjugation-2, impersonal

Equivalents

Examples

“Prīmum igitur illud tē scīre volō, Sampsiceramum, nostrum amīcum, vehementer suī stātūs paenitēre restituīque in eum locum cupere ex quō dēcidit.”

First then I want you to know that our friend Sampsiceramus [Pompey] is bitterly unhappy about his position and longs to get back to where he stood before his fall.

“Sed neque paeniteat, nec gēns mihi cārior ūlla est:”

And yet neither is there regret, nor is any other nation dearer to me: here may I be worshipped, here may I occupy the temple with my Jupiter. (Juno, after telling of the people and places she could have protected, now says she favors Rome.)

“Mē paenitet alicuius reī.”

I regret something.

“Eum errōris suī multum paenituit.”

He regretted his mistake very much.

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