Parcae

Parcae is a Latin form of parcus, meaning “sparing, frugal, thrifty; scanty”.

It can also be a form of Parca, “Fate; one of the goddesses of fate”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine adjective or vocative plural feminine adjective.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44: … tur, Amor Dolus †modus Labor Invidentia Fatum Senectus Mors Tenebrae Miseria Querella Gratia Fraus Pertinacia Parcae Hesperides Somnia; quos omnis Erebo et Nocte natos ferunt. aut igitur haec monstra probanda sunt aut prima il …

Martial, Epigrammata 4.66.16: Alea sed parcae sola fuere nuces.

All forms of parcus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.