candida

candida is a Latin form of candidus, meaning “white, bright, shining; fair, beautiful; candid, kind”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective or nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 197 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 2.46: ecce ferunt Nymphae calathis; tibi candida Nais,

Ovid, Amores 1.5.10: Candida dividua colla tegente coma —

Plautus, Pseudolus 5.1.1262: manu cándida cantharum dúlciferum propínat amicissíma amico:

All forms of candidus (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.