percepisti

Percepisti is the second‑person singular perfect active form of the Latin verb percipio, which means "to perceive, to receive, to understand." In classical Latin, percipio is a 3rd‑conjugation verb and can be used reflexively. Percepisti literally translates as "you have perceived" or "you have understood," and appears in various literary contexts where a speaker addresses another individual directly, asserting that the other has grasped a particular concept, truth, or message. The verb percipio itself has cognates in many Romance languages, such as French percevoir, Italian percepire, and Spanish percibir, all of which carry the sense of acquiring knowledge or receiving sensory information.

In antiquity, the perfect tense form percepis­ti is found in works of Cicero, Livy, and Seneca, often in rhetorical contexts to assert that an interlocutor has grasped an argument or moral point. Because Latin verbs carry a formal grammatical meaning, percepis­ti is generally employed in texts where formality or direct address is appropriate. Modern scholars sometimes use the form in philological studies to track nuances of interpretation across texts. Therefore, percepis­ti is an example of the rich interplay between language and epistemology in classical literature.