Significatio vocis licet | Babel Free

Definitiones

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

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“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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