duram

duram is a Latin form of durus, meaning “hard; harsh, stern, rough; tough, hardy; cruel”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 49 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Amicitia 48: … d inter hominem et truncum aut saxum aut quidvis generis eiusdem? neque enim sunt isti audiendi, qui virtutem duram et quasi ferream esse quandam volunt; quae quidem est cum multis in rebus tum in amicitia tenera atque tracta …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 7.63.2: Duram tibi legem videor ponere, cum poetarum Graecorum maximus ius flendi dederit in unum dumtaxat diem, cum dixeri …

All forms of durus (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.