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carissimus

carissimus is a Latin form of carus, meaning “dear; costly”. It is the nominative singular masculine superlative adjective or vocative singular masculine superlative adjective.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.15: … eronica semper vendundas censuerunt, ut iis iucundior esset muneris illius functio, si eius regis qui Siculis carissimus fuit non solum instituta commutato imperio, verum etiam nomen maneret. hoc iure ante Verrem praetorem Siculi …

All forms of carus (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.