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altior

altior is a Latin form of alo, meaning “nourish, feed, support”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative noun or vocative singular masculine comparative noun or nominative singular feminine comparative noun or vocative singular feminine comparative noun.

Found 73 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.51: … ari videbare. tanta vis inerat in verbis propter earum rerum, quae significabantur his verbis, dignitatem, ut altior fieres, ut interdum insisteres, ut nos intuens quasi testificarere laudari honestatem et iustitiam aliquando …

Vergil, Georgics 2.290: Altior ac penitus terrae defigitur arbos,

All forms of alo (conjugation 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.