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longae

longae is a Latin form of longus, meaning “long”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 120 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.73.9: Id ex similitudine floris lilium appellabant. Ante haec taleae pedem longae ferreis hamis infixis totae in terram infodiebantur mediocribusque intermissis spatiis omnibus locis disserebantur; quos stimulos nominabant.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 7.39.8: iam ualida admodum numero manus erat nec quicquam ad iusti exercitus formam praeter ducem deerat. incompositi itaque praedantes in agrum Albanum perueniunt et sub iugo Albae Longae castra uallo cingunt.

All forms of longus (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.