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electa

electa is a Latin form of eligo, meaning “pick out, choose, select”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine or perfect passive participle vocative singular feminine or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.4.5: Plurimum inter eos Bellovacos et virtute et auctoritate et hominum numero valere: hos posse conficere armata milia centum, pollicitos ex eo numero electa milia LX totiusque belli imperium sibi postulare.

Lucan, Civil War 1.609: Electa cervice marem. Iam fundere Bacchum

All forms of eligo (conjugation 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.