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ambitiosa

ambitiosa is a Latin form of ambitiosus, meaning “ambitious, eager for favor; ostentatious”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 10.25.2: … actum rei p. putas, celeriter ad comitia, quoniam mature futura sunt, veniendum censeo, dum modo ne quid haec ambitiosa festinatio aliquid imminuat eius gloriae, quam consecuti sumus. multi clarissimi viri, cum rei p. darent oper …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 20.119.14: Ambitiosa non est fames, contenta desinere est; quo desinat, non nimis curat. Infelicis luxuriae ista tormenta sunt; qu …

All forms of ambitiosus (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.