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atra is a Latin form of ater, meaning “black, dark; gloomy, deadly”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 152 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.11: … ore disiungimus. Graeci volunt illi quidem, sed parum valent verbo: quem nos furorem, illi vocant; quasi vero atra bili solum mens ac non saepe vel iracundia graviore vel timore vel dolore moveatur; quo genere Athamantem Alc …

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2.727c: Atra bili percita est.

All forms of ater (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.