Socratos Sign in

controversias

controversias is a Latin form of controversia, meaning “dispute, quarrel, controversy; debate exercise (in rhetoric)”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.26.4: Tum suo more conclamaverunt, uti aliqui ex nostris ad colloquium prodiret: habere sese, quae de re communi dicere vellent, quibus rebus controversias minui posse sperarent.

Suetonius, Divus Julius 85.1: … s Numidici in foro statuit inscripsitque parenti patriae. apud eam longo tempore sacrificare, uota suscipere, controuersias quasdam interposito per Caesarem iure iurando distrahere perseuerauit.

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.