Significatio vocis petītiō | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. an attack, thrust, blow
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2. a request, petition, beseeching
   declension-3
3. an applying for office
   declension-3
4. suit, claim
   declension-3
5. right of claim
   declension-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Quot ego tuās petītiōnēs — ita coniectās ut vītārī posse nōn vidērentur — parvā quādam dēclīnātiōne et, ut aiunt, corpore effūgī!”

How many attacks of yours — aimed so directly that they seemed impossible to avoid — did I escape with a certain small turn and, as they say, by [the mere swerve of my] body!

Gradus CEFR