percipietis

Percipietis is a Latin verb form derived from the second conjugation verb *percipere* meaning “to perceive” or “to notice.” In Classical Latin, *percipere* conjugates irregularly, with the paradigm *percibere* used for the first and second conjugation forms. The form *percipietis* is a future passive, third person plural: it translates roughly as “they will be perceived.” The adjective *percipientis* (genitive singular) means “of those who perceive” or “pertaining to perception,” and it is commonly found in medieval scholastic texts where logical and metaphysical analysis of perception is addressed.

The term appears in a number of Latin manuscripts from the medieval and early modern periods. In scholastic works dealing with Aristotle’s *Posterior Analytics*, *Percipietis* is sometimes used as a term of assent to a proposition: “the proposition is percipientis” meaning that it is known. The word is also employed in ecclesiastical documents discussing doctrinal assent, with a sense of “with a deep perception” or “with true understanding.”

Modern scholarship on Latin prosody notes that the form *percipietis* is relatively uncommon compared with its infinitive *percipere*, and it is usually found in legal and theological Latin rather than poetry or rhetoric. The term is occasionally cited by philologists investigating the development of Latin participles and passive forms, illustrating the flexibility of the language’s inflectional system.

Overall, *percipietis* has a narrow but specific semantic range tied to perception and assent in Latin literature. Its study provides insight into how Latin speakers expressed complex epistemic states in legal, theological, and philosophical contexts.