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laevo

laevo is a Latin form of laevus, meaning “left, on the left; unlucky; foolish; (laeva) the left hand”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or dative singular masculine noun or ablative singular neuter adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective.

Found 99 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 10.21.3: … chirographi Titio misi; ipsa chirographa omnia, et ea quibus credidi, et ea quibus fidem non habendam putavi, Laevo Cispio dabo perferenda, qui omnibus iis interfuit rebus.

Vergil, Aeneid 9.372: cum procul hos laevo flectentis limite cernunt

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.11.8: additur fabula, quod uolgo Sabini aureas armillas magni ponderis brachio laeuo gemmatosque magna specie anulos habuerint, pepigisse eam quod in sinistris manibus haberent; eo scuta illi pro aureis donis congesta.

All forms of laevus (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.