casta

casta is a Latin form of castus, meaning “pure, chaste, virtuous; holy”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 109 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 13.8: … ta, ipsius, fratris maiorumque monumenta; probatissima uxor, optatissimi liberi, res familiaris cum ampla tum casta a cruore civili. nemo ab eo civis violatus, multi eius beneficio et misericordia liberati. talis igitur vir e …

Ovid, Amores 3.13.3: Casta sacerdotes Iunoni festa parabant

All forms of castus (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.