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certiora

certiora is a Latin form of certus, meaning “certain, sure; fixed”. It is the nominative plural neuter comparative adjective or vocative plural neuter comparative adjective or accusative plural neuter comparative adjective.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 3.13: … sa sunt argumenta atque indicia sceleris, tabellae, signa, manus, denique unius cuiusque confessio, tum multo certiora illa, color, oculi, voltus, taciturnitas. sic enim obstupuerant, sic terram intuebantur, sic furtim non numqu …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 5.13.3: Certiora deinde cognoscit ex Bagistane Babylonio, qui nondum vinctum regem, sed in periculo esse aut mortis aut vinculorum adfirmabat.

All forms of certus (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.