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longior

longior is a Latin form of longus, meaning “long”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 125 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.37.2: Interim, dum de condicionibus inter se agunt longiorque consulto ab Ambiorige instituitur sermo, paulatim circumventus interficitur.

Ovid, Heroides 20.241: Longior infirmum ne lasset epistula corpus

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.