excelsa

excelsa is a Latin form of excello, meaning “excel, be distinguished; (excelsus) high, lofty”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.74: … in suis antiquis sedibus summa cum gratulatione civium et laetitia reponitur. haec erat posita Segestae sane excelsa in basi, in qua grandibus litteris P. Africani nomen erat incisum eumque Carthagine capta restituisse perscri …

Lucan, Civil War 3.88: Excelsa de rupe procul iam prospicit Urbem,

All forms of excello (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.