cepisti

Cepisti is a Latin verb form, specifically the second-person singular perfect active indicative of capere, meaning to seize, take, or capture. In Latin, cepisti generally translates as “you took” or, depending on context, “you have taken,” with the subject you understood from the sentence. It is transitive and takes a direct object in the accusative.

Form and derivation: Cepisti is built from the verb stem cep- plus the perfect ending -isti, which marks second person singular in the perfect tense. Related forms include cepi (I took), cepit (he took), cepimus (we took), cepistis (you all took), and ceperunt (they took). The form is typical of the -ere verbs in the perfect system and appears in classical Latin narrative and descriptive prose.

Usage: In classical texts cepisti appears in past-tense or perfective statements. It requires a direct object, for example Cepisti librum, meaning “You took the book.” The form is used across various registers of Latin, from literature to inscriptions, to convey completed action by the subject.

Notes: Cepisti is a verb form, not a noun or a place name. It is one of several principal parts and tense forms that illustrate how Latin marks person and number in the perfect tense. Understanding cepisti helps in parsing Latin sentences where a subject is either explicit or implied and the action is completed in the past.