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controversiae

controversiae is a Latin form of controversia, meaning “dispute, quarrel, controversy; debate exercise (in rhetoric)”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.9: … t et iureiurando sanciantur, aut ipse propius accedat aut se patiatur accedere: fore, uti per colloquia omnes controversiae componantur,

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.pr.21: … a nullo fieri animaduerto semper fecit: antequam dicere inciperet sedens quaestiones eius quam dicturus erat controuersiae proponebat, quod summae fiduciae est. ipsa enim actio multas latebras habet, nec facile potest, si quo loco s …

All forms of controversia (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.