alma

alma is a Latin form of almus, meaning “nourishing, kindly, bountiful”. It is the vocative singular feminine adjective.

Found 75 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 3.104: … enim non ad iram deorum, quae nulla est, sed ad iustitiam et ad fidem pertinet. Nam praeclare Ennius: Ó Fides alma ápta pinnis ét ius iurandúm Iovis! Qui ius igitur iurandum violat, is Fidem violat, quam in Capitolio vicinam …

Vergil, Aeneid 10.252: Alma parens Idaea deum, cui Dindyma cordi

All forms of almus (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.